Moral de Calatrava

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 1993. 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 99 wells and boreholes in Moral de Calatrava. Half of the 98 with a depth found water at 5–18 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 59% practically impermeable; 18% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 16% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 6.3% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 53 ha, in 2023.
• 3.8% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3.8% in the 500-year one.
• 0.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 0.6% 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 93%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 335 mm a year (1971–2000), about 305 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.6 °C, about 36.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 42 a year, about 20 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Granátula de Calatrava · Valdepeñas · Bolaños de Calatrava · Almagro · Santa Cruz de Mudela · Manzanares