Ardales

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 2021. 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 3 wells and boreholes in Ardales. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 82–782 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 33% low permeability, local groundwater only; 24% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 14% practically impermeable; 12% porous aquifer, high productivity; 6.9% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 5.9% surface water body.

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).
• 13% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 4.9% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.08 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 96%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 535 mm a year (1971–2000), about 456 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.3 °C, about 33.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 4 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Carratraca · Casarabonela · Teba · El Burgo · Álora · Campillos · Cañete la Real · Antequera