Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Cantabria
Miengo
Cantabria · Cantabria · 24 km²
What rustic land in Miengo 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 2015. 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 44 wells and boreholes in Miengo. Half of the 44 with a depth found water at 6–7 m. 17 springs are recorded.
Ground: 25% practically impermeable; 22% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 21% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 14% low permeability, local groundwater only; 9.3% surface water body.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 3 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 8 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
- 13% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 14% in the 500-year one.
- 12% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 6.6% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 23% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 99%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 1,037 mm a year (1971–2000), about 872 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 22.6 °C, about 24.5 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 4 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.
Around it
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.