Guadalajara

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 2012. 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 30 wells and boreholes in Guadalajara. Half of the 28 with a depth found water at 7–35 m. 12 springs are recorded.

Ground: 66% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 23% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 8.9% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 5 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 317 ha in all, the latest in 2024.
• 2.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.5% in the 500-year one.
• 2.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 97%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 424 mm a year (1971–2000), about 399 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.7 °C, about 33.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 61 a year, about 39 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Marchamalo · Galápagos · Valdeaveruelo · Fontanar · Fuentelahiguera de Albatages · Málaga del Fresno · Cabanillas del Campo · Yunquera de Henares