Santiago de Calatrava

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Andalucía requires at least 2.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Other cases: 5 ha on forest land.

Decreto 550/2022, art. 31. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 1986. 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 4 wells and boreholes in Santiago de Calatrava. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 5 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 65% practically impermeable; 32% 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).
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 82%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 443 mm a year (1971–2000), about 389 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 33.3 °C, about 36.9 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 14 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Valenzuela · Higuera de Calatrava · Baena · Torredonjimeno · Martos