Alhama de Granada

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 2014. 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 253 wells and boreholes in Alhama de Granada. Half of the 223 with a depth found water at 7–110 m. 66 springs are recorded.

Ground: 43% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 27% practically impermeable; 19% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 5 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 117 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 44% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 22% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.23 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 76%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 559 mm a year (1971–2000), about 482 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.7 °C, about 33.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 17 a year, about 6 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Santa Cruz del Comercio · Játar · Arenas del Rey · Zafarraya · Cacín · Alcaucín · Fornes · Sedella