Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Badajoz
Medellín
Badajoz · Extremadura · 65 km²
What rustic land in Medellín 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?
Extremadura requires at least 1.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.
Ley 11/2018, art. 70. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1999. 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 8 wells and boreholes in Medellín. Half of the 8 with a depth found water at 9–11 m.
Ground: 61% low permeability, local groundwater only; 20% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 12% practically impermeable; 6.8% surface water body.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 33 ha, in 2026.
- 42% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 49% in the 500-year one.
- 32% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 2.8% 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 76%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 408 mm a year (1971–2000), about 366 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 33.1 °C, about 36.7 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 13 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Santa Amalia · Mengabril · Valdetorres · Don Benito · Guareña
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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.