Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Cantabria
Rionansa
Cantabria · Cantabria · 118 km²
What rustic land in Rionansa 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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1994. 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 Rionansa. 18 springs are recorded.
Ground: 72% low permeability, local groundwater only; 19% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 6.8% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 137 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 7,299 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
- 1.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.1% in the 500-year one.
- 1.1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- 15% 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 91%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 1,137 mm a year (1971–2000), about 960 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 21.8 °C, about 23.9 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 38 a year, about 22 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Lamasón · Tudanca · Cabuérniga · Herrerías · Valdáliga · Polaciones · Cabezón de Liébana
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.