Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Madrid
El Berrueco
Madrid · Madrid region · 28 km²
What rustic land in El Berrueco 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?
The Madrid region allows no new houses on rustic land. Restoring an existing or listed building is the way.
Ley 9/2001, art. 29. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler 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 2 wells and boreholes in El Berrueco. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 5–6 m.
Ground: 89% practically impermeable; 6.6% surface water body.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 184 ha, in 2019.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 11% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 73%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 513 mm a year (1971–2000), about 475 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 28.6 °C, about 32.7 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 67 a year, about 44 by 2041–2070.
Around it
La Cabrera · Cervera de Buitrago · Torrelaguna · Patones · Lozoyuela-Navas-Sieteiglesias · Torremocha de Jarama · Puentes Viejas
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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.