Alcalá del Valle

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 2009. 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 28 wells and boreholes in Alcalá del Valle. Half of the 28 with a depth found water at 4–28 m. 27 springs are recorded.

Ground: 53% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 34% low permeability, local groundwater only; 6.8% porous aquifer, high productivity; 5.2% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 509 ha, in 2020.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.08 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 100%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 668 mm a year (1971–2000), about 569 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.7 °C, about 33.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 5 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Setenil de las Bodegas · Torre Alháquime · Cañete la Real · Ronda · Olvera