Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Castellón/Castelló
Torrechiva
Castellón/Castelló · Valencian Community · 12 km²
What rustic land in Torrechiva 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 2019. 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 one well or borehole in Torrechiva. Its depth: 3 m. One spring is recorded.
Ground: 59% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 18% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 9.8% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 8.5% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 4.3% of the municipality lies in the 500-year flood zone.
- 60% 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 87%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 436 mm a year (1971–2000), about 379 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 28 °C, about 31.3 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 28 a year, about 12 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Toga · Espadilla · Fuentes de Ayódar · Cirat · Ludiente
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.