Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Valencia/València
Chelva
Valencia/València · Valencian Community · 191 km²
What rustic land in Chelva 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 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?
IGME records 4 wells and boreholes in Chelva. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 60–95 m. 10 springs are recorded.
Ground: 54% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 20% practically impermeable; 18% low permeability, local groundwater only; 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).
- 94% 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 79%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 381 mm a year (1971–2000), about 335 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 29.6 °C, about 33.2 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 32 a year, about 15 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Calles · Domeño · Benagéber · Tuéjar · Loriguilla · Higueruelas · Titaguas · Alpuente
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.