Fuente-Álamo

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 2002. 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 98 wells and boreholes in Fuente-Álamo. Half of the 92 with a depth found water at 7–15 m. 4 springs are recorded.

Ground: 34% low permeability, local groundwater only; 24% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 24% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 9% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 7.7% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 2 ha, in 2025.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 93%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 250 mm a year (1971–2000), about 218 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.6 °C, about 34.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 37 a year, about 16 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Ontur · Corral-Rubio · Pétrola · Montealegre del Castillo · Tobarra · Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón · Jumilla