Piqueras del Castillo

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.

No town plan: the region's general rules apply. The region's planning viewer ↗

The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.

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

Is there water?

IGME records 2 wells and boreholes in Piqueras del Castillo. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 50–190 m. 7 springs are recorded.

Ground: 41% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 28% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 26% porous aquifer, high productivity; 5.1% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 4,746 ha in all, the latest in 2024.
• 0.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.5% in the 500-year one.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 81%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 425 mm a year (1971–2000), about 382 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.5 °C, about 33.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 65 a year, about 41 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Barchín del Hoyo · Chumillas · Las Valeras · Buenache de Alarcón · Hontecillas