Castillo de Garcimuñoz

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Castilla-La Mancha requires at least 1.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Other cases: 3 ha on protected rustic land.

Orden 4/2020, art. 5. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 2015. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 14 wells and boreholes in Castillo de Garcimuñoz. Half of the 14 with a depth found water at 6–194 m. 4 springs are recorded.

Ground: 41% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 16% low permeability, local groundwater only; 15% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 12% surface water body; 11% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 87%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 401 mm a year (1971–2000), about 363 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.3 °C, about 34.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 61 a year, about 37 by 2041–2070.

Around it

La Almarcha · Pinarejo · Torrubia del Castillo · Olivares de Júcar · Villar de la Encina · Honrubia · Valverde de Júcar