Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Jaén
Carboneros
Jaén · Andalucía · 59 km²
What rustic land in Carboneros 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 2001. 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 13 wells and boreholes in Carboneros. Half of the 10 with a depth found water at 10–90 m. 3 springs are recorded.
Ground: 75% practically impermeable; 22% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 0.8% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.8% in the 500-year one.
- 0.8% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 21% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 74%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 466 mm a year (1971–2000), about 416 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 34 °C, about 37.8 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 17 a year, about 5 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Guarromán · La Carolina · Vilches · Baños de la Encina · Linares
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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.