Cuevas de San Marcos

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 2015. 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 18 wells and boreholes in Cuevas de San Marcos. Half of the 18 with a depth found water at 8–45 m. 26 springs are recorded.

Ground: 61% low permeability, local groundwater only; 21% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 7.1% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 6.6% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 0.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.5% in the 500-year one.
• 1% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 3% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.09 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 93%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 483 mm a year (1971–2000), about 419 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.9 °C, about 36.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 7 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Cuevas Bajas · Encinas Reales · Villanueva de Algaidas · Iznájar · Rute