Priego de Córdoba

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 2016. 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 34 wells and boreholes in Priego de Córdoba. Half of the 34 with a depth found water at 5–10 m. 54 springs are recorded.

Ground: 58% low permeability, local groundwater only; 29% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 5.6% porous aquifer, medium 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).
• 27% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 27% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.09 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 88%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 571 mm a year (1971–2000), about 495 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.4 °C, about 35.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 10 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Almedinilla · Fuente-Tójar · Carcabuey · Luque · Algarinejo · Montefrío · Alcaudete · Rute