Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Cantabria
Santoña
Cantabria · Cantabria · 11 km²
What rustic land in Santoña 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 one well or borehole in Santoña. Its depth: 4 m. 3 springs are recorded.
Ground: 56% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 14% low permeability, local groundwater only; 10% porous aquifer, high productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 90% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 90% 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: 980 mm a year (1971–2000), about 827 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 21 °C, about 22.7 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 1 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.
Around it
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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.