Xixona / Jijona

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 1986. 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 37 wells and boreholes in Xixona / Jijona. Half of the 33 with a depth found water at 87–296 m. 22 springs are recorded.

Ground: 37% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 28% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 16% low permeability, local groundwater only; 13% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 1 ha, in 2022.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 19% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 1.8% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.09 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 82%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 320 mm a year (1971–2000), about 272 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.9 °C, about 31.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 13 a year, about 4 by 2041–2070.

Around it

la Torre de les Maçanes / Torremanzanas · Busot · Ibi · Relleu · Tibi · Alcoi / Alcoy · Sant Vicent del Raspeig / San Vicente del Raspeig · Castalla