Fuentelahiguera de Albatages

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: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 2006. 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 5 wells and boreholes in Fuentelahiguera de Albatages. Half of the 5 with a depth found water at 50–63 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 90% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 10% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.6% in the 500-year one.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 32% of homes; fibre 77%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 464 mm a year (1971–2000), about 435 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.6 °C, about 33.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 64 a year, about 40 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Viñuelas · Málaga del Fresno · Valdenuño Fernández · Villaseca de Uceda · Malaguilla · Guadalajara · Galápagos · Matarrubia