La Puebla de los Infantes

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 2003. 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 12 wells and boreholes in La Puebla de los Infantes. Half of the 10 with a depth found water at 16–102 m. 14 springs are recorded.

Ground: 54% practically impermeable; 17% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 15% porous aquifer, high productivity; 5.2% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 158 ha in all, the latest in 2024.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 14% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 12% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 72%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 724 mm a year (1971–2000), about 627 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 33.8 °C, about 37.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 11 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Peñaflor · Las Navas de la Concepción · Constantina · Lora del Río · Hornachuelos