Segura de la Sierra

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 2012. 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 30 wells and boreholes in Segura de la Sierra. Half of the 26 with a depth found water at 90–150 m. 174 springs are recorded.

Ground: 34% low permeability, local groundwater only; 34% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 16% practically impermeable; 9.4% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 822 ha, in 2017.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 94% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 84% 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 70%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 769 mm a year (1971–2000), about 660 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.6 °C, about 32.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 62 a year, about 33 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Hornos · Benatae · Santiago-Pontones · Siles · Puente de Génave · La Puerta de Segura · Beas de Segura · Yeste