Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Málaga
Colmenar
Málaga · Andalucía · 66 km²
What rustic land in Colmenar 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 1993. 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 2 wells and boreholes in Colmenar. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 50–250 m. One spring is recorded.
Ground: 85% low permeability, local groundwater only; 10% porous aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 50 ha, in 2020.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 12% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 0.6% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.14 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 85%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 608 mm a year (1971–2000), about 524 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 29.7 °C, about 33.1 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 5 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Riogordo · Alfarnatejo · Casabermeja · Villanueva del Rosario · Comares · Alfarnate · Málaga · Antequera
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.