Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Alicante/Alacant
Orxeta
Alicante/Alacant · Valencian Community · 24 km²
What rustic land in Orxeta 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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1997. 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 15 wells and boreholes in Orxeta. Half of the 11 with a depth found water at 30–156 m. 3 springs are recorded.
Ground: 37% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 25% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 15% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 13% practically impermeable; 9.4% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 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.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.09 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 95% of homes; fibre 78%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 341 mm a year (1971–2000), about 288 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 27.9 °C, about 30.9 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 4 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.
Around it
la Vila Joiosa / Villajoyosa · Finestrat · Relleu · Sella · Aigües · el Campello
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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.