Chiva

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 1983. 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 140 wells and boreholes in Chiva. Half of the 134 with a depth found water at 23–166 m. 70 springs are recorded.

Ground: 26% low permeability, local groundwater only; 21% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 21% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 13% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 11% porous aquifer, high productivity; 7.6% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 4 ha in all, the latest in 2023.
• 1.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3.4% in the 500-year one.
• 0.8% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 35% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 96% of homes; fibre 93%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 446 mm a year (1971–2000), about 387 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.9 °C, about 32.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 14 a year, about 4 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Buñol · Cheste · Siete Aguas · Godelleta · Gestalgar · Riba-roja de Túria · Quart de Poblet · Torrent