La Guardia

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 1995. 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 4 wells and boreholes in La Guardia. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 54–80 m. 3 springs are recorded.

Ground: 35% low permeability, local groundwater only; 28% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 18% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 10% practically impermeable; 8.3% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 4 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 654 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 53% 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 97%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 283 mm a year (1971–2000), about 265 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.8 °C, about 36 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 50 a year, about 29 by 2041–2070.

Around it

El Romeral · Dosbarrios · Lillo · Villatobas · Tembleque · Huerta de Valdecarábanos · Villanueva de Bogas · Corral de Almaguer