Macharaviaya, Málaga property and area FAQs

Macharaviaya is a municipality in the province of Málaga in the mountains of the autonomous community of Andalusia in the south of Spain. It is located in the comarca of La Axarquía.

The current IGN Nomenclátor extract records 2 official population nuclei for Macharaviaya. The imported source records are dated through 2025-10-20. The entry explicitly marked as the municipal capital is Macharaviaya, at a recorded elevation of approximately 247 metres. Other population-bearing nuclei in the extract include Benaque (133 residents in the cited settlement record). Nomenclátor entries describe settlement geography; they are not listing totals, neighbourhood boundaries or evidence of homes currently available for sale.

The village was built upon the ruins of an old Moorish settlement. Its name is derived from Arabic: مَشْجَر أَبِي يَحْيى, romanized: mašjar abī yaḥyā, meaning "Abu/Abi Yahya's Farm/Grove". It was the home of the noble Gálvez family, whose descendant Matías de Gálvez y Gallardo had been the viceroy of New Spain. His son Bernardo, who was born in the village, became Governor of Louisiana and captured Baton Rouge, Mobile and Pensacola from the British during the American Revolution. The historical centre of the village has a preservation order on it. Some Spanish and foreign artists, ceramicists, painters and writers live among the villagers.

The linked structured municipality record gives an area of 7.0 square kilometres for Macharaviaya municipality. This is municipal geography, not a property-search radius.

Macharaviaya is treated as an official municipality. The page is joined to institutional datasets by its five-digit INE identity, not by a loose name match.

The linked structured record gives a municipal reference coordinate of 36.7619, -4.2142. It is not a listing coordinate, parcel boundary or search radius.

Dividing the INE population of 508 by the recorded municipal area of 7.0 km² gives approximately 72.6 residents per km² for Macharaviaya municipality. This is a transparent calculation from the two cited values.

Macharaviaya is in Málaga province. Province-level figures are explicitly labelled when a municipality-level series is unavailable.

The latest imported INE population for Macharaviaya municipality is 508, for period 2023.

Across the first and latest points in the displayed INE series for Macharaviaya municipality, recorded population changed by 9.0%. This describes the published series, not a forecast.

The latest imported INE household-income atlas value for Macharaviaya municipality is €10,846 net income per person, for period 2023.

INE records an average age of 44.1 years for Macharaviaya municipality, for period 2023.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 9 displayed population observations for Macharaviaya municipality is 486 residents. It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

The displayed series for Macharaviaya municipality begins at 466 residents in 2015. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

Within the same displayed series for Macharaviaya municipality, the lowest population value is 439 residents in 2017.

The current Consejo General del Notariado snapshot for Macharaviaya municipality records €1,042 per square metre. It is completed-sale evidence, not an asking-price figure.

Registradores reports a foreign-buyer share of 16.0% for Andalucía in 2026Q2. It is regional context, not a municipality estimate.

The displayed series for Andalucía begins at 14.3% in 2024Q3. This is the earliest point in the current imported series, not an estimate for an earlier period.

Within the 8 displayed observations for Andalucía, the highest regional foreign-buyer share value is 16.0% in 2026Q2.

The simple arithmetic mean across the 8 displayed registered sale-price benchmark observations for Málaga province is €2,973 per m². It is calculated from the published points and is not a separate official benchmark.

4 of 4 recorded transactions inform the published price measures for Macharaviaya municipality, equal to 100.0%.

From 2024Q3 to 2026Q2, the displayed regional foreign-buyer share value for Andalucía changed by 11.5%. This is a historical comparison between two published points, not a forecast.

Dirección General del Catastro records 314 buildings for Macharaviaya municipality in the current imported extract. This is physical stock, not homes for sale.

The current Catastro building extract records 223 dwellings for Macharaviaya municipality. It should not be read as current sale inventory.

Across buildings with a recorded construction year, the Catastro extract gives an average year of 1,971 for Macharaviaya municipality. Missing construction years are not imputed.

The current official administrative extract contains 45 energy certificates for Macharaviaya municipality. Certificate count is registered coverage, not the total number of homes.

Among the imported certificates for Macharaviaya municipality, 6.7% are rated A, B or C. The share applies only to registered certificates in the dataset.

The official administrative extract contains 9 active tourism-register entries for Macharaviaya municipality, with source update 2026-10-29. It is not an occupancy measure.

The largest recorded Catastro age band is 1990–2009, with 114 buildings, or 36.4% of buildings that enter the displayed age distribution.

The current eligible public inventory contains 0 listings for Macharaviaya. The count excludes sold, withdrawn, expired, rejected, draft, private, off-market and feed-private records.