Nerpio

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 1985. 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.

Catastro records 55 homes on rustic plots in Nerpio, 2 of them built before 1950, and 264 farm buildings. See them on the map →

Towns in Castilla-La Mancha where you can build a house →

Maps of Spain: Old farmhouses

Is there water?

IGME records 9 wells and boreholes in Nerpio. Half of the 8 with a depth found water at 3–6 m. 94 springs are recorded.

Ground: 37% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 33% low permeability, local groundwater only; 19% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 7.2% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

Maps of Spain: Wells · Aquifers

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 69% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 11% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Maps of Spain: Flood zones · Radon · Wildfires

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 75%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 495 mm a year (1971–2000), about 430 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.6 °C, about 31.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 87 a year, about 51 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Yeste · Puebla de Don Fadrique · Santiago-Pontones · Letur · Huéscar · Moratalla