Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Alicante/Alacant
Albatera
Alicante/Alacant · Valencian Community · 62 km²
What rustic land in Albatera 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?
The Valencian Community requires at least 1 ha for a new house on rustic land.
DL 1/2021, art. 211. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1990. The region's planning viewer ↗
The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 99% 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 Albatera. Its depth: 20 m.
Ground: 56% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 38% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 3.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 5.4% in the 500-year one.
- 1.2% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 26% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Not a radon zone.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.15 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 85%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 217 mm a year (1971–2000), about 187 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 31.5 °C, about 34.5 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 2 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
San Isidro · Granja de Rocamora · Crevillent · Hondón de los Frailes · Cox · el Fondó de les Neus / Hondón de las Nieves · Orihuela
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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.