Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Cádiz
Espera
Cádiz · Andalucía · 124 km²
What rustic land in Espera 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 2003. 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 12 wells and boreholes in Espera. Half of the 11 with a depth found water at 3–6 m. 2 springs are recorded.
Ground: 47% low permeability, local groundwater only; 34% practically impermeable; 10% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 8.4% porous aquifer, high productivity.
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).
- 4.2% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 0.5% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 91%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 552 mm a year (1971–2000), about 470 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 32.3 °C, about 35.4 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 2 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Bornos · Arcos de la Frontera · Las Cabezas de San Juan · Villamartín · Utrera · Lebrija
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.