Riba-roja de Túria

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 1997. 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 68 wells and boreholes in Riba-roja de Túria. Half of the 67 with a depth found water at 15–100 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 26% porous aquifer, high productivity; 26% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 21% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 11% low permeability, local groundwater only; 10% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 5.2% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 5 ha, in 2024.
• 5.2% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 9.4% in the 500-year one.
• 4.2% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 12% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 97%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 366 mm a year (1971–2000), about 316 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.4 °C, about 33.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 5 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Manises · l'Eliana · Quart de Poblet · Paterna · Benaguasil · Vilamarxant · Cheste · la Pobla de Vallbona