Almenara

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 1981. 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 70 wells and boreholes in Almenara. Half of the 68 with a depth found water at 8–80 m. 6 springs are recorded.

Ground: 31% low permeability, local groundwater only; 24% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 17% surface water body; 17% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 11% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 27% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 30% in the 500-year one.
• 14% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 18% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 17% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 100%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 360 mm a year (1971–2000), about 310 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.6 °C, about 30.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 3 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Benavites · la Llosa · Quartell · Sagunt / Sagunto · Quart de les Valls · la Vall d'Uixó