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Benafer
Castellón/Castelló · Valencian Community · 17 km²
What rustic land in Benafer 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: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), 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?
No well or borehole is recorded in Benafer. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. 5 springs are recorded.
Ground: 47% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 36% low permeability, local groundwater only; 10% practically impermeable; 6.5% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 14% 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: 427 mm a year (1971–2000), about 372 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 27.7 °C, about 31.1 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 31 a year, about 15 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Viver · Caudiel · Pina de Montalgrao · Jérica
Selling land in Benafer? Add a free water and building check to your listing.
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.