Fuente del Arco

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 2016. 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 12 wells and boreholes in Fuente del Arco. Half of the 12 with a depth found water at 10–63 m. 5 springs are recorded.

Ground: 56% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 37% practically impermeable; 5.2% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 958 ha, in 2024.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 31% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 98% of homes; fibre 95%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 493 mm a year (1971–2000), about 433 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.9 °C, about 36.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 10 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Trasierra · Reina · Puebla del Maestre · Casas de Reina · Guadalcanal · Monesterio · El Real de la Jara · Cazalla de la Sierra