Rioja, La · Rioja
Enciso
La Rioja's main dinosaur centre — the easiest place to see preserved dinosaur footprints, now home to an expanded, Disneyesque themed attraction.
What Enciso is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
11km from Arnedillo, 35km southwest of Calahorra.
Worth the trip
- El Barranco Perdido, an expanded dinosaur-themed attraction with rides and shows
- A well-signposted 6km circular walk to dinosaur footprint sites
A little history
Once just a small Centre Paleontológico giving information about the region's dinosaur sites.
Who it suits: Families with kids
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
- 7.5°C 0.3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.5°C 0.3°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 70 days about the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 6.6 h/day 9% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 32 24 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,745 about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 1
- Nearest international school
- 39 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 493 12 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 43 min
- Nearest health centre
- 12.2 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 78 days 28% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 111 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 66% 13% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 71% 13% below the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 167
- Born in Spain
- 92.8% 4% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 3.6% 0.2% 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 Enciso fit you?
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