Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Alicante/Alacant
Torrevieja
Alicante/Alacant · Valencian Community · 72 km²
What rustic land in Torrevieja 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 2000. 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 29 wells and boreholes in Torrevieja. Half of the 22 with a depth found water at 15–35 m.
Ground: 43% surface water body; 30% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 21% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 0.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.5% in the 500-year one.
- 52% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 52% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Not a radon zone.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.14 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 100%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 196 mm a year (1971–2000), about 165 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 28.6 °C, about 30.9 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 0 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Los Montesinos · San Miguel de Salinas · Rojales · Guardamar del Segura · Orihuela
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.