Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Castellón/Castelló
Altura
Castellón/Castelló · Valencian Community · 130 km²
What rustic land in Altura 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 1994. 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 11 wells and boreholes in Altura. Half of the 10 with a depth found water at 200–350 m. 13 springs are recorded.
Ground: 42% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 23% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 21% low permeability, local groundwater only; 11% practically impermeable.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 20,543 ha in all, the latest in 2022.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 17% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 16% 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 87%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 416 mm a year (1971–2000), about 361 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 28.6 °C, about 31.9 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 22 a year, about 9 by 2041–2070.
Around it
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.