Alcalalí

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 1992. 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 18 wells and boreholes in Alcalalí. Half of the 16 with a depth found water at 72–211 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 41% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 22% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 17% porous aquifer, high productivity; 12% low permeability, local groundwater only; 7.8% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 673 ha, in 2024.
• 0.9% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.9% in the 500-year one.
• 0.9% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 9.5% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 90%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 586 mm a year (1971–2000), about 491 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.6 °C, about 32.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 3 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Parcent · Murla · Orba · Xaló · Benidoleig · Llíber · Tàrbena · Pedreguer