Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Córdoba
Espiel
Córdoba · Andalucía · 438 km²
What rustic land in Espiel 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: Plan General (a full town plan), from 1997. 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 21 wells and boreholes in Espiel. Half of the 17 with a depth found water at 8–53 m. 11 springs are recorded.
Ground: 85% practically impermeable; 11% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 3 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 173 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 30% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 72%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 651 mm a year (1971–2000), about 577 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 31.9 °C, about 35.5 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 15 a year, about 5 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Villaharta · Villaviciosa de Córdoba · Villanueva del Rey · Belmez · Alcaracejos · Obejo · Villanueva del Duque · Pozoblanco
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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.