Vícar

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 2009. 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 159 wells and boreholes in Vícar. Half of the 156 with a depth found water at 125–284 m. Measured yields (41): 30–64 L/s, the middle half. 13 springs are recorded.

Ground: 45% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 21% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 20% porous aquifer, high productivity; 8.7% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 27 ha, in 2023.
• 1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1% in the 500-year one.
• 1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 7.8% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.14 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 96%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 223 mm a year (1971–2000), about 190 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.9 °C, about 31.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 0 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Roquetas de Mar · La Mojonera · Enix · Felix · El Ejido · Dalías