Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Granada
Almuñécar
Granada · Andalucía · 84 km²
What rustic land in Almuñécar 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 1987. 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 Almuñécar. Half of the 150 with a depth found water at 9–45 m. 5 springs are recorded.
Ground: 79% practically impermeable; 12% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 3 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 788 ha in all, the latest in 2024.
- 2.4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3.6% in the 500-year one.
- 2.4% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 2.4% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 1.8% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.16 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 87%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 496 mm a year (1971–2000), about 428 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 28.3 °C, about 30.7 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 1 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
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.