Teruel · Aragon
Cantavieja
A little livelier and larger than most Maestrazgo villages, dramatically situated by the edge of an escarpment at 1300m.
What Cantavieja is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
At an altitude of 1300m, by the edge of an escarpment.
Worth the trip
- The porticoed Pza. de Cristo Rey
- Museo de las Guerras Carlistas de Cantavieja, documenting the nineteenth-century Carlist Wars
Who it suits: Maestrazgo road-trippers
The numbers
The decision data — each figure against the Spanish average. Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 8.2°C 0.4°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 31.7°C 1.5°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 51 days 25% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 10 46 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €13,918 4% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.5%
Safety
- Recorded crime regional estimate
- 30.4 per 1,000 31% less than the Spanish average (44 per 1,000)
Schools
- Schools in town
- 2
- Nearest international school
- 66 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 487 6 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 90 min
- Nearest health centre
- 1 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 132 days 22% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 94 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 85% 6% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 85% 1% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 727
- Born in Spain
- 88.9% 0.1% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 2.1% 1.8% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0 per 1,000
Numbers: SettleSpain town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma, Ministerio del Interior and the Catastro. National average = the unweighted mean across all 8,132 Spanish municipalities with data. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
How does Cantavieja fit you?
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