Sierra Engarcerán

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 2009. 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 8 wells and boreholes in Sierra Engarcerán. Half of the 8 with a depth found water at 149–404 m.

Ground: 36% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 33% porous aquifer, high productivity; 20% low permeability, local groundwater only; 10% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 40 ha, in 2026.
• 0.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.4% in the 500-year one.
• 50% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 60%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 504 mm a year (1971–2000), about 434 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.3 °C, about 30.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 18 a year, about 7 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Benlloc · la Serratella · Vilanova d'Alcolea · Vall d'Alba · Culla · les Useres / Useras · les Coves de Vinromà · Albocàsser