Fuentes

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 1992. The region's planning viewer ↗

The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 10 wells and boreholes in Fuentes. Half of the 9 with a depth found water at 10–195 m. 5 springs are recorded.

Ground: 55% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 37% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 0.4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.4% in the 500-year one.
• 1.3% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 1.3% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 95% of homes; fibre 83%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 469 mm a year (1971–2000), about 423 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.1 °C, about 33.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 82 a year, about 54 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Arcas · Cañada del Hoyo · Reíllo · Monteagudo de las Salinas · Cuenca