Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Málaga
Coín
Málaga · Andalucía · 128 km²
What rustic land in Coín 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: Plan General (a full town plan), from 1998. 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 43 wells and boreholes in Coín. Half of the 36 with a depth found water at 7–50 m. 10 springs are recorded.
Ground: 39% low permeability, local groundwater only; 34% practically impermeable; 14% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 8.5% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 5% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1% in the 500-year one.
- 0.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 84%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 611 mm a year (1971–2000), about 516 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 31.7 °C, about 34.8 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 1 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Guaro · Alhaurín el Grande · Monda · Alozaina · Pizarra · Ojén · Mijas · Casarabonela
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.