Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Alicante/Alacant
Elx / Elche
Alicante/Alacant · Valencian Community · 327 km²
What rustic land in Elx / Elche 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 1998. 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 153 wells and boreholes in Elx / Elche. Half of the 130 with a depth found water at 8–80 m. 4 springs are recorded.
Ground: 65% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 22% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 3 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 11 ha in all, the latest in 2025.
- 4.4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 7.2% in the 500-year one.
- 9.4% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 9.9% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Not a radon zone.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.15 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 96%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 193 mm a year (1971–2000), about 165 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 31 °C, about 33.8 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 2 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Santa Pola · San Fulgencio · Crevillent · Dolores · Aspe · Monforte del Cid · Guardamar del Segura · Alacant / Alicante
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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.