Yeste

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Castilla-La Mancha requires at least 1.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Other cases: 3 ha on protected rustic land.

Orden 4/2020, art. 5. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1981. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 99% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 33 wells and boreholes in Yeste. Half of the 27 with a depth found water at 7–20 m. 410 springs are recorded.

Ground: 37% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 29% low permeability, local groundwater only; 25% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 7% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 3 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 3,298 ha in all, the latest in 2023.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 71% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 23% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 68%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 544 mm a year (1971–2000), about 472 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31 °C, about 35.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 46 a year, about 21 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Nerpio · Letur · Riópar · Siles · Molinicos · Segura de la Sierra · Elche de la Sierra · Vianos