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Benassal
Castellón/Castelló · Valencian Community · 80 km²
What rustic land in Benassal 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 1996. 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 17 wells and boreholes in Benassal. Half of the 16 with a depth found water at 80–205 m. 6 springs are recorded.
Ground: 51% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 24% porous aquifer, high productivity; 20% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 500-year flood zone.
- 47% 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 85%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 484 mm a year (1971–2000), about 419 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 25.9 °C, about 29.2 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 31 a year, about 15 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Ares del Maestrat · Vilafranca / Villafranca del Cid · Vilar de Canes · Culla · Vistabella del Maestrat
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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.