Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Valencia/València
Chella
Valencia/València · Valencian Community · 44 km²
What rustic land in Chella 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 2002. 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 13 wells and boreholes in Chella. Half of the 13 with a depth found water at 90–170 m. 6 springs are recorded.
Ground: 57% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 17% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 12% practically impermeable; 7.8% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 1,496 ha, in 2016.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 57% 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 83%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 505 mm a year (1971–2000), about 428 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 30.1 °C, about 33.4 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 7 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Anna · Sumacàrcer · Cotes · Sellent · Navarrés · Bolbaite · Enguera
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.