Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Málaga
Benaoján
Málaga · Andalucía · 32 km²
What rustic land in Benaoján 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.
No town plan: the region's general rules apply. The region's planning viewer ↗
The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
IGME records 4 wells and boreholes in Benaoján. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 4–65 m. 6 springs are recorded.
Ground: 72% low permeability, local groundwater only; 27% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.
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).
- 68% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 68% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 96%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 1,093 mm a year (1971–2000), about 924 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 28.7 °C, about 32.3 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 8 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Montejaque · Jimera de Líbar · Alpandeire · Villaluenga del Rosario · Ronda · Cortes de la Frontera
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.