Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Salamanca
El Arco
Salamanca · Castilla y León · 7.1 km²
What rustic land in El Arco 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?
Castilla y León allows a new house on rustic land only when a farm needs it. Otherwise it has to go in a village, or restore a building.
Ley 5/1999, art. 23.1.e. 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?
IGME records 4 wells and boreholes in El Arco. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 4–5 m.
Ground: 36% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 34% low permeability, local groundwater only; 26% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 11% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 13% in the 500-year one.
- 5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 84%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 338 mm a year (1971–2000), about 322 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 28.7 °C, about 32.8 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 71 a year, about 48 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Aldearrodrigo · San Pelayo de Guareña · Almenara de Tormes · Zamayón
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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.