El Carpio de Tajo

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 2015. 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 4 wells and boreholes in El Carpio de Tajo. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 8–22 m.

Ground: 87% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 7.6% porous aquifer, high productivity; 5.7% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 15 ha, in 2022.
• 1.3% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 4.4% in the 500-year one.
• 0.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 97%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 354 mm a year (1971–2000), about 332 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.4 °C, about 36.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 37 a year, about 18 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Malpica de Tajo · Villarejo de Montalbán · Mesegar de Tajo · La Puebla de Montalbán · La Mata · San Martín de Pusa · Carmena · San Martín de Montalbán