Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Málaga
Gaucín
Málaga · Andalucía · 98 km²
What rustic land in Gaucín 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 1986. 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 2 wells and boreholes in Gaucín. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 64–73 m.
Ground: 83% low permeability, local groundwater only; 7.6% practically impermeable; 6.1% 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).
- 54% 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 99% of homes; fibre 70%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 914 mm a year (1971–2000), about 767 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 31.2 °C, about 34.3 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 0 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Benarrabá · Casares · Cortes de la Frontera · Jimena de la Frontera
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.