Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón

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: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2004. 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 437 wells and boreholes in Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón. Half of the 279 with a depth found water at 6–103 m. 10 springs are recorded.

Ground: 34% low permeability, local groundwater only; 28% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 26% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 7.4% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 5 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 330 ha in all, the latest in 2025.
• 0.8% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.8% in the 500-year one.
• 5.7% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 92%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 276 mm a year (1971–2000), about 244 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.9 °C, about 34.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 49 a year, about 25 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Hoya-Gonzalo · Pétrola · Corral-Rubio · Higueruela · Pozo Cañada · Bonete · Fuente-Álamo · Casas de Juan Núñez