Xodos / Chodos

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: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 1990. 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 3 wells and boreholes in Xodos / Chodos. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 44–104 m. 4 springs are recorded.

Ground: 75% porous aquifer, high productivity; 17% low permeability, local groundwater only; 8.2% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 3 ha, in 2022.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 100% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 3.8% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 98% of homes; fibre 66%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 471 mm a year (1971–2000), about 408 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 25.3 °C, about 28.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 38 a year, about 19 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Vistabella del Maestrat · Atzeneta del Maestrat · Llucena / Lucena del Cid · Castillo de Villamalefa · Villahermosa del Río