Campoo de Enmedio

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 2019. 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 one well or borehole in Campoo de Enmedio. Its depth: 67 m. 6 springs are recorded.

Ground: 64% low permeability, local groundwater only; 13% practically impermeable; 9% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 7.2% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 5.4% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 10 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 11% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 93%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 907 mm a year (1971–2000), about 776 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 22.1 °C, about 25 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 88 a year, about 61 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Reinosa · Santiurde de Reinosa · Las Rozas de Valdearroyo · Campoo de Yuso · Valdeolea · Valdeprado del Río · Hermandad de Campoo de Suso