Puente de Génave

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 1987. 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 3 wells and boreholes in Puente de Génave. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 105–152 m. 18 springs are recorded.

Ground: 45% practically impermeable; 25% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 16% low permeability, local groundwater only; 13% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 500-year flood zone.
• 0.6% 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 85%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 657 mm a year (1971–2000), about 568 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.4 °C, about 35.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 31 a year, about 13 by 2041–2070.

Around it

La Puerta de Segura · Arroyo del Ojanco · Beas de Segura · Segura de la Sierra