Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Cuenca
La Cierva
Cuenca · Castilla-La Mancha · 72 km²
What rustic land in La Cierva 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?
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.
No town plan: the region's general rules apply. 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 3 wells and boreholes in La Cierva. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 50–300 m. 6 springs are recorded.
Ground: 85% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 5.7% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 5.7% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 3 ha, in 2025.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 92% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 66% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 44% of homes; fibre 82%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 571 mm a year (1971–2000), about 516 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 27.5 °C, about 31.5 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 86 a year, about 57 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Valdemorillo de la Sierra · Cañada del Hoyo · Valdemoro-Sierra · Pajarón · Cuenca
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.