Valle de Manzanedo

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 2015. 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 Valle de Manzanedo. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 43% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 37% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 17% practically impermeable.

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).
• 52% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 52% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 0.3%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 743 mm a year (1971–2000), about 635 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 24.3 °C, about 27.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 78 a year, about 53 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Valle de Zamanzas · Villarcayo de Merindad de Castilla la Vieja · Alfoz de Bricia · Merindad de Valdivielso · Valle de Valdebezana · Los Altos · Merindad de Valdeporres