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El Gordo
Cáceres · Extremadura · 77 km²
What rustic land in El Gordo 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 2010. 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 Gordo. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 47–242 m.
Ground: 74% low permeability, local groundwater only; 22% surface water body.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 28% 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: 490 mm a year (1971–2000), about 452 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 30.4 °C, about 34 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 12 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Berrocalejo · Peraleda de la Mata · Bohonal de Ibor · Peraleda de San Román · Valdeverdeja · Caleruela · Valdelacasa de Tajo · Calzada de Oropesa
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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.