Puerto Real

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 2010. 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 122 wells and boreholes in Puerto Real. Half of the 116 with a depth found water at 7–26 m.

Ground: 46% low permeability, local groundwater only; 36% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 9% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 8.4% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 3 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 112 ha in all, the latest in 2025.
• 16% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 17% in the 500-year one.
• 12% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 17% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 14% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 99%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 571 mm a year (1971–2000), about 476 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31 °C, about 33.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 0 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

San Fernando · Chiclana de la Frontera · El Puerto de Santa María · Jerez de la Frontera · Medina Sidonia