Alcalá la Real

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 2006. 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 185 wells and boreholes in Alcalá la Real. Half of the 147 with a depth found water at 9–74 m. 70 springs are recorded.

Ground: 47% low permeability, local groundwater only; 16% practically impermeable; 11% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 10% porous aquifer, high productivity; 8.3% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 8.3% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium 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 0.12 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 95%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 572 mm a year (1971–2000), about 496 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.6 °C, about 34.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 12 a year, about 4 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Castillo de Locubín · Frailes · Almedinilla · Moclín · Valdepeñas de Jaén · Montefrío · Montillana · Íllora