Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Cantabria
Villaescusa
Cantabria · Cantabria · 28 km²
What rustic land in Villaescusa 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 1983. 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 5 wells and boreholes in Villaescusa. Half of the 5 with a depth found water at 120–155 m. 10 springs are recorded.
Ground: 48% low permeability, local groundwater only; 38% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 9.2% practically impermeable.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 58 ha, in 2023.
- 4.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 4.6% in the 500-year one.
- 2.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 95%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 1,204 mm a year (1971–2000), about 1,013 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 23.3 °C, about 25.3 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 6 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Penagos · El Astillero · Camargo · Santa María de Cayón · Castañeda · Piélagos · Medio Cudeyo · Liérganes
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.