Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Murcia
Águilas
Murcia · Murcia · 252 km²
What rustic land in Águilas 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?
Murcia 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 13/2015, art. 95. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2022. 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 123 wells and boreholes in Águilas. Half of the 82 with a depth found water at 74–120 m. 6 springs are recorded.
Ground: 51% practically impermeable; 33% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 10% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.7% in the 500-year one.
- 42% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 7.3% 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.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.11 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 97%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 194 mm a year (1971–2000), about 164 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 29.6 °C, about 32.3 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 1 a year, about 0 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.