Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Badajoz
Don Benito
Badajoz · Extremadura · 560 km²
What rustic land in Don Benito 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.
Can you build a house on rustic land?
Extremadura requires at least 1.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.
Ley 11/2018, art. 70. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), 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 24 wells and boreholes in Don Benito. Half of the 24 with a depth found water at 8–13 m.
Ground: 56% low permeability, local groundwater only; 30% practically impermeable; 13% porous aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 8 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 659 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
- 7.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 7.1% in the 500-year one.
- 4.8% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 14% 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 95%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 394 mm a year (1971–2000), about 353 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 33.4 °C, about 37 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 13 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.
Around it
La Haba · Mengabril · Medellín · Villanueva de la Serena · Rena · Manchita · Santa Amalia · La Coronada
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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.