Corral de Calatrava

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 2006. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 99% of the municipality.

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

Is there water?

IGME records 23 wells and boreholes in Corral de Calatrava. Half of the 21 with a depth found water at 3–10 m.

Ground: 44% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 40% practically impermeable; 7.7% porous aquifer, high productivity; 7.1% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 527 ha, in 2021.
• 3.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3.6% in the 500-year one.
• 3% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 6.5% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 3% 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 94%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 367 mm a year (1971–2000), about 335 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.7 °C, about 36.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 38 a year, about 18 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Caracuel de Calatrava · Cañada de Calatrava · Poblete · Los Pozuelos de Calatrava · Alcolea de Calatrava · Ciudad Real · Villamayor de Calatrava · Cabezarados