Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Cantabria
Soba
Cantabria · Cantabria · 215 km²
What rustic land in Soba 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 1991. 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 Soba. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. 17 springs are recorded.
Ground: 45% low permeability, local groundwater only; 32% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 22% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 113 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 11,938 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 48% 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 96% of homes; fibre 92%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 1,358 mm a year (1971–2000), about 1,141 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 20.8 °C, about 23.5 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 70 a year, about 46 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Espinosa de los Monteros · Lanestosa · Arredondo · Ruesga · Ramales de la Victoria · San Roque de Riomiera · Merindad de Montija · Karrantza Harana / Valle de Carranza
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.