Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Cuenca
Cueva del Hierro
Cuenca · Castilla-La Mancha · 28 km²
What rustic land in Cueva del Hierro allows and holds, for the municipality as a whole. For a particular plot, open it in the map: the report answers for that exact point.
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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.
No town plan: the region's general rules apply. The region's planning viewer ↗
The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
No well or borehole is recorded in Cueva del Hierro. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. 5 springs are recorded.
Ground: 36% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 34% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 20% practically impermeable; 5.4% porous aquifer, medium 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).
- 67% 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 88%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 704 mm a year (1971–2000), about 641 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 26.4 °C, about 30.6 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 112 a year, about 78 by 2041–2070.
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From IGME, MITECO, SNCZI, EFFIS, the SIU, the Building Code, NCSE-02, SETID and AdapteCCa; summarised 9 October 2026. Information, not a certificate: the town hall has the final word.