Dehesas de Guadix

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: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 1989. The region's planning viewer ↗

The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 47 wells and boreholes in Dehesas de Guadix. Half of the 41 with a depth found water at 25–52 m. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 45% low permeability, local groundwater only; 34% porous aquifer, high productivity; 16% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 13 ha, in 2022.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 1.4% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.09 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 288 mm a year (1971–2000), about 250 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 33.2 °C, about 37.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 14 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Alicún de Ortega · Villanueva de las Torres · Gorafe · Huesa · Alamedilla · Cuevas del Campo · Pedro Martínez · Freila