Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Almería
Zurgena
Almería · Andalucía · 72 km²
What rustic land in Zurgena 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.
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 2018. 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 3 wells and boreholes in Zurgena. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 142–520 m.
Ground: 68% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 19% practically impermeable; 7.7% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 5.9% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- Not a radon zone.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.14 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 81%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 219 mm a year (1971–2000), about 187 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 32.1 °C, about 35.1 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 1 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Arboleas · Huércal-Overa · Taberno · Antas · Lubrín
Selling land in Zurgena? Add a free water and building check to your listing.
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.