Morata de Jiloca

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Aragón requires at least 1 ha for a new house on rustic land.

DL 1/2014, art. 34.2. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 1991. 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 7 wells and boreholes in Morata de Jiloca. Half of the 7 with a depth found water at 19–21 m. 3 springs are recorded.

Ground: 39% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 23% low permeability, local groundwater only; 21% porous aquifer, high productivity; 15% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 4.8% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 6.1% in the 500-year one.
• 3.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 36% 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: 302 mm a year (1971–2000), about 274 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.1 °C, about 33.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 69 a year, about 43 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Velilla de Jiloca · Fuentes de Jiloca · Alarba · Maluenda · Mara