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.
Why people fall for Enciso
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
Who Enciso is for — and who it isn't
Not our opinion: we ran the same scoring engine behind the quiz for six settler profiles across all 8,132 municipalities and read off where Enciso lands.
Enciso is mid-pack for all six profiles we score (between the 34th and 49th percentile) — a solid all-rounder, a standout for nobody. Your own priorities may read it differently: that's what the quiz is for.
The numbers
The decision data — each figure placed among all Spanish municipalities that report it ("top 10%" always means good, also where lower is better). Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 7.5°C top 43% of 8,131 towns 0.3°C below the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.5°C top 49% of 8,131 towns 0.3°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 70 days bottom 37% of 8,088 towns about the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine estimated
- 6.6 h/day bottom 20% of 3,829 towns 9% less than the Spanish average (7.2 h/day)
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 32 top 35% of 8,033 towns 24 below the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,745 top 44% of 8,059 towns about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 23% bottom 32% of 6,605 towns
Schools
- Schools in town
- 1 top 39% of 7,042 towns
- Nearest international school
- 39 km top 43% of 8,132 towns
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 493 #5 of 17 regions, +14 vs national 12 above the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 43 min bottom 35% of 8,132 towns
- Nearest health centre
- 12.2 km bottom 32% of 7,025 towns
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 78 days #4 of 17 regions, −25 days vs national 28% less than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 111 min bottom 18% of 8,132 towns
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 66% bottom 17% of 8,132 towns 13% below the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 71% bottom 15% of 8,132 towns 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: SpainScore town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma and the Catastro. Percentile chips count only the municipalities that report the figure — the "of n" says how many. Region-ranked figures (PISA, surgical waits) compare Spain's 17 comunidades autónomas. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
The year, month by month
AEMET 30-year climate normals — what a January or an August actually feels like, not the annual average.
How does Enciso fit you?
These are the town's numbers. Whether it's your town depends on what you're optimising for — winter sun or mild summers, a city or a village, short medical waits, an easy flight home. The 3-minute quiz scores Enciso against every one of Spain's 8,132 municipalities on your priorities. It sits about 70 min from Logroño, if that's your anchor.
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