Monforte del Cid

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 2008. 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 16 wells and boreholes in Monforte del Cid. Half of the 13 with a depth found water at 170–420 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 51% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 30% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 11% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 3 ha, in 2024.
• 1.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.6% in the 500-year one.
• 0.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 4.3% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.12 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 83%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 207 mm a year (1971–2000), about 178 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.2 °C, about 34.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 3 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

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