Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Almería
Bédar
Almería · Andalucía · 47 km²
What rustic land in Bédar 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 1996. 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 5 wells and boreholes in Bédar. Half of the 5 with a depth found water at 88–150 m. Measured yields (5): 3–10 L/s, the middle half.
Ground: 54% practically impermeable; 25% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 9.1% low permeability, local groundwater only; 7.9% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 5,400 ha, in 2026.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 74% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Not a radon zone.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.14 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 98% of homes; fibre 74%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 247 mm a year (1971–2000), about 207 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 29.7 °C, about 32.3 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 1 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Los Gallardos · Turre · Lubrín · Antas · Sorbas
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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.