Ciudad Real

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 1997. 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 178 wells and boreholes in Ciudad Real. Half of the 176 with a depth found water at 13–45 m. 9 springs are recorded.

Ground: 29% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 26% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 20% practically impermeable; 16% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 4 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 691 ha in all, the latest in 2024.
• 1.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.3% in the 500-year one.
• 1.7% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 20% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 1.7% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 99%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 363 mm a year (1971–2000), about 331 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.7 °C, about 36.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 41 a year, about 21 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Poblete · Corral de Calatrava · Alcolea de Calatrava · Villar del Pozo · Picón · Cañada de Calatrava · Miguelturra · Ballesteros de Calatrava