Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Jaén
Lahiguera
Jaén · Andalucía · 45 km²
What rustic land in Lahiguera 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 2000. 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 7 wells and boreholes in Lahiguera. Half of the 7 with a depth found water at 7–9 m. 2 springs are recorded.
Ground: 74% practically impermeable; 20% 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).
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 95%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 457 mm a year (1971–2000), about 404 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 34.1 °C, about 37.8 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 18 a year, about 6 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Arjona · Fuerte del Rey · Torredelcampo · Villanueva de la Reina · Andújar
Selling land in Lahiguera? Add a free water and building check to your listing.
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.