Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Jaén
Jódar
Jaén · Andalucía · 149 km²
What rustic land in Jódar 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 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 33 wells and boreholes in Jódar. Half of the 29 with a depth found water at 120–225 m. One measured yield: 30 L/s. 18 springs are recorded.
Ground: 42% low permeability, local groundwater only; 34% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 11% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 7.9% practically impermeable.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 3 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 718 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 9.4% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 9.4% 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 97%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 421 mm a year (1971–2000), about 367 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 33.3 °C, about 37.2 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 11 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Bedmar y Garcíez · Bélmez de la Moraleda · Cabra del Santo Cristo · Baeza · Úbeda · Huelma
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.