Ourense · Galicia
Castro Caldelas
A hilltop village crowned by a medieval castle giving tremendous views, near a jetty for boat trips on the Sil.
What Castro Caldelas is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
50km east of Ourense, a few kilometres south of the Sil gorge/canyon.
Worth the trip
- A medieval castle at the very top with tremendous views over town and countryside
- A jetty base for boat trips on the Sil river
Who it suits: Sil-gorge boat 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)
- 30.4°C 0.2°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 103 days 50% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 2 54 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,482 about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 30.8%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 1
- Nearest international school
- 103 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 486 5 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 43 min
- Nearest health centre
- no local data
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 73 days 32% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 117 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 59% 19% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 77% 6% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 1,237
- Born in Spain
- 87.9% 0.9% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.5% 0.3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 0.81 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.
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