Cantabria · Cantabria
Puente Viesgo
Home to El Castillo Cave, where Paleolithic inhabitants engraved and painted the walls.
What Puente Viesgo is like
Portrait drawn from the Michelin Green Guide.
Worth the trip
- El Castillo Cave, with scattered, often enigmatic Paleolithic engravings and paintings
Who it suits: Prehistoric-art travellers
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
- 10.4°C 2.7°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 23.3°C 6.9°C below the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 124 days 81% more than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 6 50 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,098 3% less than the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 26.3%
Schools
- Schools in town
- no local data
- Nearest international school
- 7 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 495 14 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 16 min
- Nearest health centre
- 6.5 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 137 days 27% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 28 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 94% 15% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 95% 12% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 2,889
- Born in Spain
- 95% 6.2% above the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 0.9% 3% below the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 2.08 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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