Salinas del Manzano

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: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 1982. 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?

IGME records one well or borehole in Salinas del Manzano. Its depth: 9 m. 6 springs are recorded.

Ground: 35% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 27% low permeability, local groundwater only; 15% practically impermeable; 13% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 9.5% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.1% in the 500-year one.
• 0.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 1.1% 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 92%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 484 mm a year (1971–2000), about 435 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.4 °C, about 31.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 92 a year, about 61 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Huérguina · Salvacañete · Tejadillos · Alcalá de la Vega · Cañete