Mota del Cuervo

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 1992. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 98% of the municipality.

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

Is there water?

IGME records 25 wells and boreholes in Mota del Cuervo. Half of the 24 with a depth found water at 16–130 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 48% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 32% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 12% porous aquifer, high productivity; 6.3% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 5.2% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 2.6% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 97%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 321 mm a year (1971–2000), about 295 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32 °C, about 36.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 56 a year, about 33 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Santa María de los Llanos · Pedro Muñoz · El Toboso · Las Mesas · Los Hinojosos · Socuéllamos