Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Granada
Chauchina
Granada · Andalucía · 21 km²
What rustic land in Chauchina 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 2003. 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 37 wells and boreholes in Chauchina. Half of the 28 with a depth found water at 8–25 m. 3 springs are recorded.
Ground: 58% low permeability, local groundwater only; 25% porous aquifer, high productivity; 14% practically impermeable.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 8% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 9.8% in the 500-year one.
- 2.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- Not a radon zone.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.23 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 92%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 332 mm a year (1971–2000), about 288 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 33 °C, about 36.8 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 9 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.
Around it
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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.