Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Granada
Freila
Granada · Andalucía · 75 km²
What rustic land in Freila 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 2006. 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 11 wells and boreholes in Freila. Half of the 11 with a depth found water at 125–230 m. 10 springs are recorded.
Ground: 53% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 32% low permeability, local groundwater only; 5.6% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 7 ha, in 2023.
- 0.8% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.8% in the 500-year one.
- 0.8% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- Not a radon zone.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.11 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 75%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 259 mm a year (1971–2000), about 225 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 32.9 °C, about 36.8 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 12 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Baza · Cuevas del Campo · Zújar · Gorafe · Dehesas de Guadix · Guadix
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.