Jumilla

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Murcia allows a new house on rustic land only when a farm needs it. Otherwise it has to go in a village, or restore a building.

Ley 13/2015, art. 95. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2004. 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 569 wells and boreholes in Jumilla. Half of the 536 with a depth found water at 14–149 m. 51 springs are recorded.

Ground: 33% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 30% low permeability, local groundwater only; 18% porous aquifer, high productivity; 8.6% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 7.5% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 901 ha in all, the latest in 2022.
• 0.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.5% in the 500-year one.
• 0.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 7.5% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 5.4% 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 83%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 218 mm a year (1971–2000), about 190 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.3 °C, about 35 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 19 a year, about 6 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Albatana · Ontur · Yecla · Fuente-Álamo · el Pinós / Pinoso · Cieza · Abarán · Montealegre del Castillo