Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Badajoz
Valdetorres
Badajoz · Extremadura · 40 km²
What rustic land in Valdetorres allows and holds, for the municipality as a whole. For a particular plot, open it in the map: the report answers for that exact point.
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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1983. 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 10 wells and boreholes in Valdetorres. Half of the 10 with a depth found water at 8–12 m.
Ground: 50% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 25% practically impermeable; 25% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 43% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 43% in the 500-year one.
- 41% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 2% 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.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 90%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 403 mm a year (1971–2000), about 360 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 33 °C, about 36.6 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 13 a year, about 4 by 2041–2070.
Around it
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From IGME, MITECO, SNCZI, EFFIS, the SIU, the Building Code, NCSE-02, SETID and AdapteCCa; summarised 9 October 2026. Information, not a certificate: the town hall has the final word.