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Algueña
Alicante/Alacant · Valencian Community · 18 km²
What rustic land in Algueña 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 1989. 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 24 wells and boreholes in Algueña. Half of the 15 with a depth found water at 136–315 m.
Ground: 51% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 18% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 15% porous aquifer, high productivity; 13% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 0.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.7% in the 500-year one.
- Not a radon zone.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.12 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 96%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 236 mm a year (1971–2000), about 204 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 29.9 °C, about 33.3 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 11 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.
Around it
el Pinós / Pinoso · la Romana · el Fondó de les Neus / Hondón de las Nieves · Abanilla · 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.