Picón

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 2013. 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 Picón. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 45% practically impermeable; 32% porous aquifer, high productivity; 16% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 6.2% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 120 ha in all, the latest in 2024.
• 1.9% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.9% in the 500-year one.
• 1.9% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 45% 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: 407 mm a year (1971–2000), about 371 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.4 °C, about 36.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 38 a year, about 18 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Miguelturra · Fernán Caballero · Alcolea de Calatrava · Ciudad Real · Piedrabuena