Las Gabias

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 1997. 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 27 wells and boreholes in Las Gabias. Half of the 23 with a depth found water at 72–129 m.

Ground: 65% practically impermeable; 13% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 11% porous aquifer, high productivity; 10% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 2.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3.5% in the 500-year one.
• 1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 8% 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 97%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 342 mm a year (1971–2000), about 295 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 33 °C, about 36.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 10 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.

Around it

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