Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Málaga
Alcaucín
Málaga · Andalucía · 45 km²
What rustic land in Alcaucín 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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1995. 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 2 wells and boreholes in Alcaucín. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 12–300 m. 31 springs are recorded.
Ground: 48% low permeability, local groundwater only; 42% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 5 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 168 ha in all, the latest in 2025.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 31% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 31% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Not a radon zone.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.21 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 67%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 612 mm a year (1971–2000), about 529 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 29.7 °C, about 32.9 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 4 a year, about 1 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.