Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Granada
Villa de Otura
Granada · Andalucía · 25 km²
What rustic land in Villa de Otura 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.
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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 2003. 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 49 wells and boreholes in Villa de Otura. Half of the 44 with a depth found water at 55–100 m. One spring is recorded.
Ground: 70% practically impermeable; 14% porous aquifer, high productivity; 10% porous aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 5 ha, in 2023.
- 1.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.7% in the 500-year one.
- Not a radon zone.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.24 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 87%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 382 mm a year (1971–2000), about 330 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 32.3 °C, about 36.1 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 9 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.
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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.