El Provencio

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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1981. 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 111 wells and boreholes in El Provencio. Half of the 102 with a depth found water at 20–33 m.

Ground: 69% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 14% porous aquifer, high productivity; 12% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 64 ha, in 2017.
• 3.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3.5% in the 500-year one.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 94%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 346 mm a year (1971–2000), about 312 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.1 °C, about 36.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 57 a year, about 34 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Las Pedroñeras · San Clemente · La Alberca de Záncara · Villarrobledo