Higueruela

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 1993. 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 81 wells and boreholes in Higueruela. Half of the 60 with a depth found water at 8–14 m. 24 springs are recorded.

Ground: 42% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 39% low permeability, local groundwater only; 6.7% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 6.7% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 5% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 8 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 775 ha in all, the latest in 2025.
• 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 100% of homes; fibre 90%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 322 mm a year (1971–2000), about 283 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.4 °C, about 32.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 53 a year, about 28 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Pozo-Lorente · Alpera · Hoya-Gonzalo · Bonete · Alatoz · Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón · Casas de Juan Núñez