Orea

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: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2015. 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?

No well or borehole is recorded in Orea. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. 14 springs are recorded.

Ground: 27% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 27% practically impermeable; 24% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 21% low permeability, local groundwater only.

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).
• 99% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 88% 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 89%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 602 mm a year (1971–2000), about 543 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 23.4 °C, about 27.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 122 a year, about 82 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Checa · Orihuela del Tremedal · Alcoroches · Alustante · Albarracín