Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Castellón/Castelló
Chilches / Xilxes
Castellón/Castelló · Valencian Community · 14 km²
What rustic land in Chilches / Xilxes 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.
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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 1993. 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 47 wells and boreholes in Chilches / Xilxes. Half of the 44 with a depth found water at 3–24 m. One spring is recorded.
Ground: 34% low permeability, local groundwater only; 22% surface water body; 18% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 13% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 10% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 15% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 17% in the 500-year one.
- 22% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 22% 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 80%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 379 mm a year (1971–2000), about 326 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 28.2 °C, about 30.8 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 4 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.
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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.