les Coves de Vinromà

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 25 wells and boreholes in les Coves de Vinromà. Half of the 23 with a depth found water at 90–211 m. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 42% low permeability, local groundwater only; 33% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 17% porous aquifer, high productivity; 8.6% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 3 ha in all, the latest in 2022.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 14% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 73%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 498 mm a year (1971–2000), about 427 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.5 °C, about 31.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 9 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.

Around it

la Serratella · Vilanova d'Alcolea · Albocàsser · Alcalà de Xivert · la Salzadella · Tírig · Sierra Engarcerán