Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Granada
La Malahá
Granada · Andalucía · 25 km²
What rustic land in La Malahá 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 2017. 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 14 wells and boreholes in La Malahá. Half of the 14 with a depth found water at 8–14 m. 6 springs are recorded.
Ground: 85% practically impermeable; 14% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 1.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.3% in the 500-year one.
- 0.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 14% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Not a radon zone.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.24 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 94%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 394 mm a year (1971–2000), about 340 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 31.9 °C, about 35.8 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 10 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Alhendín · Las Gabias · Escúzar · Chimeneas · Ventas de 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.