Navas de San Juan

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 1986. 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 107 wells and boreholes in Navas de San Juan. Half of the 86 with a depth found water at 84–180 m. 32 springs are recorded.

Ground: 65% practically impermeable; 16% porous aquifer, high productivity; 13% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 6.3% low permeability, local groundwater only.

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).
• 36% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 94%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 455 mm a year (1971–2000), about 400 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 33.3 °C, about 37.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 17 a year, about 5 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Arquillos · Santisteban del Puerto · Vilches · Sabiote · Aldeaquemada · Úbeda