Las Pedroñeras

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 2002. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 99% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 72 wells and boreholes in Las Pedroñeras. Half of the 57 with a depth found water at 25–56 m. 3 springs are recorded.

Ground: 51% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 28% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 14% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 7.8% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 70 ha, in 2025.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 96%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 337 mm a year (1971–2000), about 306 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.1 °C, about 36.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 57 a year, about 33 by 2041–2070.

Around it

El Pedernoso · Las Mesas · El Provencio · Rada de Haro · La Alberca de Záncara · Belmonte · San Clemente · Villaescusa de Haro