Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Madrid
Meco
Madrid · Madrid region · 35 km²
What rustic land in Meco 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?
The Madrid region allows no new houses on rustic land. Restoring an existing or listed building is the way.
Ley 9/2001, art. 29. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2009. 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 28 wells and boreholes in Meco. Half of the 28 with a depth found water at 7–174 m. 7 springs are recorded.
Ground: 79% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 21% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 0.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.5% in the 500-year one.
- 0.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 64% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 356 mm a year (1971–2000), about 336 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 30.8 °C, about 34.9 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 54 a year, about 32 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Villanueva de la Torre · Camarma de Esteruelas · Azuqueca de Henares · Valdeavero · Alcalá de Henares · Los Santos de la Humosa
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.