Plot
Masías, Moncada
Masías, Moncada, l'Horta Nord
We do not publish the cadastral reference or exact coordinates. The municipality and the partida carry the value.
The partida is the smallest place name we publish
A partida is the traditional farming place name of the Valencian countryside. It is older than the cadastre and narrower than a municipality, and anyone who works land nearby will know it. Masías is the one declared for this planting. Several holdings share a partida, so naming it puts the fruit in a real part of Moncada without pointing at one field.
It is also the part of the origin a buyer can check without asking us for anything. Municipality and partida can be read off a map and set against the paperwork that travels with a consignment. Area, tree count and lot numbering stay open on the record above because nobody has surveyed them, and an estimate dressed up as a measurement would be worse than a blank.
Moncada gives its name to the canal that waters this huerta
Moncada sits north of the city of València, inland from the coast at the head of l'Horta Nord. The Real Acequia de Moncada carries Túria water from a weir at Paterna along the left bank of the river as far as Puçol. It takes its name from the town, and the community of irrigators that governs it is based here. Of the eight mother canals of the Valencian huerta, it is the one that never came under the Tribunal de les Aigües, and it has kept its own court and officers since the thirteenth century.
That history is written down, which is why it belongs on a page about origin. In 2019 the FAO recognised the historical irrigation system of l'Horta de València as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System. How this particular planting takes its water is a separate question, and the honest answer today is that the method and the source are still unconfirmed.
Clemenules, at the front of the campaign
The planting is Clementina Clemenules. Anyone ordering it beside navels should treat it as a separate product: Citrus x clementina and not Citrus x sinensis, a smaller and flatter fruit with a loose skin and no seeds, grown for the table. It packs and handles on its own terms.
Clementine picking in this region opens in the first half of November and closes in the second half of January, which puts this block at the start of the season. The trees went in during 2001, well past establishment and into settled bearing. What can actually be shipped in a given week is another matter, and it changes weekly.
Talk to the grower
Tell us the variety, the sizes and the delivery week you need. You get a delivered price and what we can commit to in writing, from the person who picks the fruit.
The grower handles enquiries. Response times are still to be confirmed.