Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Alicante/Alacant
el Castell de Guadalest
Alicante/Alacant · Valencian Community · 16 km²
What rustic land in el Castell de Guadalest 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 SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
IGME records 4 wells and boreholes in el Castell de Guadalest. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 178–430 m. 4 springs are recorded.
Ground: 52% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 26% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 15% practically impermeable; 6.5% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 0.7% of the municipality lies in the 500-year flood zone.
- 39% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 97% of homes; fibre 45%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 504 mm a year (1971–2000), about 421 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 26.8 °C, about 30 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 8 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Benimantell · Bolulla · Polop · Callosa d'en Sarrià · Castell de Castells
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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.