Ubrique

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 2025. 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 10 wells and boreholes in Ubrique. Half of the 9 with a depth found water at 37–158 m. 7 springs are recorded.

Ground: 75% low permeability, local groundwater only; 15% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 5.9% surface water body.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 2.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.1% in the 500-year one.
• 1.1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 89% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 89% 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 96%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 1,104 mm a year (1971–2000), about 932 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.5 °C, about 33.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 2 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Benaocaz · Villaluenga del Rosario · Cortes de la Frontera · San José del Valle · Arcos de la Frontera · Jerez de la Frontera