Pozuelo de Calatrava

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 national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 1.6% of the municipality.

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

Is there water?

IGME records 29 wells and boreholes in Pozuelo de Calatrava. Half of the 27 with a depth found water at 35–98 m. 10 springs are recorded.

Ground: 34% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 27% practically impermeable; 19% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 8.1% porous aquifer, high productivity; 5.6% 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).
• 20% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 1.6% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 78%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 341 mm a year (1971–2000), about 312 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.7 °C, about 36.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 41 a year, about 21 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Almagro · Ballesteros de Calatrava · Ciudad Real · Miguelturra