Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Valencia/València
Barx
Valencia/València · Valencian Community · 16 km²
What rustic land in Barx 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 1982. 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 14 wells and boreholes in Barx. Half of the 14 with a depth found water at 65–352 m. 9 springs are recorded.
Ground: 85% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 8.2% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 7.2% porous aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 3,242 ha in all, the latest in 2023.
- 4.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 4.6% in the 500-year one.
- 1.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 42% 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 67%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 634 mm a year (1971–2000), about 534 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 28.9 °C, about 32.1 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 5 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Pinet · Simat de la Valldigna · Quatretonda · Gandia · Xeresa
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.