Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Ávila
El Fresno
Ávila · Castilla y León · 13 km²
What rustic land in El Fresno 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.
Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 2003. 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 14 wells and boreholes in El Fresno. Half of the 12 with a depth found water at 70–90 m.
Ground: 98% porous aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 20% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 22% in the 500-year one.
- 13% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 5.3% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 71%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 397 mm a year (1971–2000), about 371 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 26.8 °C, about 30.8 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 76 a year, about 49 by 2041–2070.
Around it
La Colilla · La Serrada · Gemuño · Salobral · Ávila
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.