San Cristóbal is a town in the

Arenas de Iguña Arenas de Iguña is a municipality located in the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain. According to the 2007 census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating pop ...

municipality of the

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region of

Cantabria Cantabria (, ; ) is an autonomous community and Provinces of Spain, province in northern Spain with Santander, Cantabria, Santander as its capital city. It is called a , a Nationalities and regions of Spain, historic community, in its current ...

. The town is also known as Valdeiguña. In the year 2004 its population was 181. San Cristóbal borders

Cohiño Cohiño is a town in the Arenas de Iguña municipality of the Spanish region of Cantabria. Locally the town is also known as Palazuelos. In the year 2004 the population of Cohiño was 71. The village is located from the capital of the municipality ...

to the north and is from the capital of the municipality, Arenas de Iguña, and 210 meters (689 feet) above sea level. The town used to belong to the historical municipality of Valdeiguña, and San Cristóbal has been documented since the

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when it was included in the

Cartulary A cartulary or chartulary (; Latin: ''cartularium'' or ''chartularium''), also called ''pancarta'' or ''codex diplomaticus'', is a medieval manuscript volume or roll ('' rotulus'') containing transcriptions of original documents relating to the fo ...

of Santillana.

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Cantabria 102 Municipios
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