Totana

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Murcia allows a new house on rustic land only when a farm needs it. Otherwise it has to go in a village, or restore a building.

Ley 13/2015, art. 95. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1981. 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 219 wells and boreholes in Totana. Half of the 198 with a depth found water at 122–220 m. 32 springs are recorded.

Ground: 57% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 12% practically impermeable; 10% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 9.4% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 8.7% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 3 ha, in 2026.
• 5.1% of the municipality lies in the 500-year flood zone.
• 37% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 30% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.1 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 85%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 250 mm a year (1971–2000), about 214 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31 °C, about 34.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 4 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Aledo · Alhama de Murcia · Mazarrón · Lorca · Mula