Torremocha de Jiloca

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Aragón requires at least 1 ha for a new house on rustic land.

DL 1/2014, art. 34.2. 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 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 17 wells and boreholes in Torremocha de Jiloca. Half of the 17 with a depth found water at 6–30 m.

Ground: 60% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 14% low permeability, local groundwater only; 12% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 5.6% porous aquifer, high productivity; 5.1% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 2% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.5% in the 500-year one.
• 1.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 97%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 286 mm a year (1971–2000), about 256 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.1 °C, about 31.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 105 a year, about 72 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Torrelacárcel · Aguatón · Camañas · Santa Eulalia · Alba