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Albox
Almería · Andalucía · 169 km²
What rustic land in Albox 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?
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: Plan General (a full town 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 52 wells and boreholes in Albox. Half of the 51 with a depth found water at 5–7 m. 7 springs are recorded.
Ground: 65% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 26% practically impermeable; 5.6% porous aquifer, high productivity.
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).
- Not a radon zone.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.14 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 77%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 268 mm a year (1971–2000), about 229 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 31.5 °C, about 34.8 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 5 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Taberno · Partaloa · Arboleas · Cantoria · Oria · Vélez-Rubio · Chirivel
Selling land in Albox? Add a free water and building check to your listing.
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.