Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Castellón/Castelló
Barracas
Castellón/Castelló · Valencian Community · 42 km²
What rustic land in Barracas 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: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2008. The region's planning viewer ↗
The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
IGME records 3 wells and boreholes in Barracas. Its depth: 150 m. One spring is recorded.
Ground: 50% low permeability, local groundwater only; 28% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 13% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 5.4% porous aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 19,364 ha in all, the latest in 2023.
- 1.2% of the municipality lies in the 500-year flood zone.
- 100% 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: 428 mm a year (1971–2000), about 373 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 27.4 °C, about 30.9 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 36 a year, about 18 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Pina de Montalgrao · El Toro · Torás · Viver
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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.