Fondón

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 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 20 wells and boreholes in Fondón. Half of the 19 with a depth found water at 17–100 m. Measured yields (2): 6–87 L/s, the middle half. 35 springs are recorded.

Ground: 66% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 23% practically impermeable; 9% porous aquifer, medium 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).
• 85% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 36% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.14 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 87%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 461 mm a year (1971–2000), about 398 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.1 °C, about 31.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 51 a year, about 24 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Laujar de Andarax · Almócita · Beires · Paterna del Río · Dalías · Berja · Abrucena