Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Granada
Purullena
Granada · Andalucía · 21 km²
What rustic land in Purullena 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 1998. 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 35 wells and boreholes in Purullena. Half of the 31 with a depth found water at 9–32 m. 3 springs are recorded.
Ground: 57% low permeability, local groundwater only; 43% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 2 ha, in 2025.
- 12% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 13% in the 500-year one.
- 9% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- Not a radon zone.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.12 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 85%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 276 mm a year (1971–2000), about 240 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 32.3 °C, about 36.2 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 24 a year, about 7 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Benalúa · Marchal · Cortes y Graena · Darro · Fonelas · Guadix
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.