Torrejoncillo

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Extremadura requires at least 1.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Ley 11/2018, art. 70. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2012. 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.

Catastro records 135 homes on rustic plots in Torrejoncillo, 7 of them built before 1950, and 291 farm buildings. See them on the map →

Towns in Extremadura where you can build a house →

Maps of Spain: Old farmhouses

Is there water?

IGME records 4 wells and boreholes in Torrejoncillo. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 6–7 m.

Ground: 45% practically impermeable; 32% low permeability, local groundwater only; 21% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

Maps of Spain: Wells · Aquifers

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 13 ha, in 2025.
• 2.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.7% in the 500-year one.
• 1.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 9.8% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Maps of Spain: Flood zones · Radon · Wildfires

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 92%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 532 mm a year (1971–2000), about 483 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 33.5 °C, about 37.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 13 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Pedroso de Acim · Portaje · Coria · Holguera · Morcillo · Portezuelo · Riolobos · Guijo de Galisteo