Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Badajoz
Guareña
Badajoz · Extremadura · 237 km²
What rustic land in Guareña allows and holds, for the municipality as a whole. For a particular plot, open it in the map: the report answers for that exact point.
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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 2001. 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 31 wells and boreholes in Guareña. Half of the 21 with a depth found water at 8–12 m.
Ground: 50% low permeability, local groundwater only; 27% practically impermeable; 23% porous aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 45 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
- 19% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 22% in the 500-year one.
- 17% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 3% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 97%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 407 mm a year (1971–2000), about 363 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 33 °C, about 36.5 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 12 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Valdetorres · Villagonzalo · Valverde de Mérida · Cristina · San Pedro de Mérida · Manchita · Medellín · Mengabril
From IGME, MITECO, SNCZI, EFFIS, the SIU, the Building Code, NCSE-02, SETID and AdapteCCa; summarised 9 October 2026. Information, not a certificate: the town hall has the final word.