Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Cantabria
Camargo
Cantabria · Cantabria · 37 km²
What rustic land in Camargo 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?
Cantabria allows a new house on rustic land only within 200 m of a village, on at least 1,500 m².
Ley 5/2022, art. 51. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 1988. 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 21 wells and boreholes in Camargo. Half of the 20 with a depth found water at 104–196 m. One spring is recorded.
Ground: 44% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 28% low permeability, local groundwater only; 12% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 11% practically impermeable.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- 5.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 6.4% in the 500-year one.
- 1.9% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 3.8% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 100%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 1,086 mm a year (1971–2000), about 915 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 22.8 °C, about 24.7 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 4 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.
Around it
El Astillero · Santa Cruz de Bezana · Villaescusa · Piélagos · Santander
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.