Cortes y Graena

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 1994. 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 23 wells and boreholes in Cortes y Graena. Half of the 17 with a depth found water at 37–70 m. 16 springs are recorded.

Ground: 66% low permeability, local groundwater only; 12% porous aquifer, high productivity; 11% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 9.8% practically impermeable.

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).
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.12 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 88%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 340 mm a year (1971–2000), about 295 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.4 °C, about 35.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 35 a year, about 14 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Beas de Guadix · Polícar · Marchal · La Peza · Purullena · Darro · Lugros