Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Alicante/Alacant
Benissa
Alicante/Alacant · Valencian Community · 70 km²
What rustic land in Benissa 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 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 42 wells and boreholes in Benissa. Half of the 37 with a depth found water at 116–317 m. 2 springs are recorded.
Ground: 62% porous aquifer, high productivity; 32% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 6.8% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium 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).
- 12% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 30% 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 86%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 474 mm a year (1971–2000), about 397 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 28.5 °C, about 31.4 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 2 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Llíber · Senija · Calp · Xaló · Teulada · Gata de Gorgos · Altea
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.