Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Valencia/València
Salem
Valencia/València · Valencian Community · 8.6 km²
What rustic land in Salem 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 2001. 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 7 wells and boreholes in Salem. Half of the 7 with a depth found water at 200–277 m. 2 springs are recorded.
Ground: 60% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 22% low permeability, local groundwater only; 17% porous aquifer, medium productivity.
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).
- 26% 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 96%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 538 mm a year (1971–2000), about 451 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 29.4 °C, about 32.9 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 12 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Ràfol de Salem · Beniarrés · Beniatjar · Castelló de Rugat · l'Orxa / Lorcha
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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.