Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Granada
Orce
Granada · Andalucía · 325 km²
What rustic land in Orce 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 1994. 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 45 wells and boreholes in Orce. Half of the 35 with a depth found water at 8–211 m. 14 springs are recorded.
Ground: 40% low permeability, local groundwater only; 31% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 20% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 8.3% 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.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.13 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 71%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 258 mm a year (1971–2000), about 226 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 30.9 °C, about 34.8 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 35 a year, about 15 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Galera · María · Chirivel · Cúllar · Puebla de Don Fadrique · Huéscar
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.