Simat de la Valldigna

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 1988. 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 33 wells and boreholes in Simat de la Valldigna. Half of the 33 with a depth found water at 74–186 m. 4 springs are recorded.

Ground: 64% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 16% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 13% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 5.9% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 3 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 2,248 ha in all, the latest in 2024.
• 2.4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.4% in the 500-year one.
• 9.4% 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 71%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 634 mm a year (1971–2000), about 534 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.9 °C, about 32.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 5 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Benifairó de la Valldigna · Barx · Barxeta · Xeraco · Quatretonda · Rafelguaraf · Alzira · Xeresa