Sotillo de la Ribera

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Castilla y León allows a new house on rustic land only when a farm needs it. Otherwise it has to go in a village, or restore a building.

Ley 5/1999, art. 23.1.e. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 2000. 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 Sotillo de la Ribera. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 47% low permeability, local groundwater only; 44% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 9.3% porous aquifer, high productivity.

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 93%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 401 mm a year (1971–2000), about 379 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.1 °C, about 31.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 84 a year, about 58 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Terradillos de Esgueva · Cabañes de Esgueva · Santibáñez de Esgueva · Gumiel de Mercado · La Horra · Cilleruelo de Abajo · Torresandino