Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Cádiz
Algeciras
Cádiz · Andalucía · 89 km²
What rustic land in Algeciras 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 2001. The region's planning viewer ↗
The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 99% of the municipality.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
IGME records 92 wells and boreholes in Algeciras. Half of the 91 with a depth found water at 3–6 m. 8 springs are recorded.
Ground: 82% low permeability, local groundwater only; 13% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 6 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 482 ha in all, the latest in 2025.
- 1.2% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.2% in the 500-year one.
- 0.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 55% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 55% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 94%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 960 mm a year (1971–2000), about 795 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 27 °C, about 29.6 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 0 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.