Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Cantabria
Peñarrubia
Cantabria · Cantabria · 53 km²
What rustic land in Peñarrubia 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: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 2002. 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?
No well or borehole is recorded in Peñarrubia. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. 26 springs are recorded.
Ground: 42% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 27% low permeability, local groundwater only; 22% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 7.4% practically impermeable.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 14 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 450 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 68% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 93%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 1,176 mm a year (1971–2000), about 994 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 21.2 °C, about 23.3 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 63 a year, about 41 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Cillorigo de Liébana · Peñamellera Baja · Lamasón · Tresviso
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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.