Aguilar de la Frontera

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Andalucía requires at least 2.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Other cases: 5 ha on forest land.

Decreto 550/2022, art. 31. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 2001. 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 8 wells and boreholes in Aguilar de la Frontera. Half of the 7 with a depth found water at 8–11 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 56% practically impermeable; 32% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 7.6% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 47 ha, in 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 3.4% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 1.7% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 96%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 461 mm a year (1971–2000), about 401 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 34.1 °C, about 37.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 10 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Moriles · Monturque · Puente Genil · Badolatosa · Lucena · Montalbán de Córdoba · Montilla · Santaella