The Ocean Township Ribamontán with 36’9 km2, occupies the central coast of Cantabria settled east of the Bay of Santander, to the stream of Vioño in Bareyo integrated into the eastern coast of Trasmiera.

Its landscape is identified by a broad plain which forms a coastline rasa, cut into towering cliffs that protect the beautiful beaches and Arnillas Langre, which are a natural paradise. Off the coast of the island is located Loredo Santa Marina, the largest of Cantabria. This rock protects the end of the beach that stretches to venture into the Bay of Santander, changed into a sand spit that forms the Depth, is one of the largest sand Cantabria. This arrow closes it the final tour of the Ria de Cubas, which forms the mouth of the River Miera, with natural boundary with the neighboring municipality Cudeyo Navy. South Ribamontán adjoins the Mt. Easy access to other coastal towns is just 34 km from Santander. There is also a sea route linking the towns of Pedreña, Santander and Santander.
The township is comprised of seven towns: Castanedo Galizano, Langre, Loredo, Somo, and Carriazo Suesa in the latter is where it housed the town hall.
The territory of Ribamontán Sea has been strengthened, thanks to its privileged enclave, one of the most frequented tourist destinations in Cantabria during the summer, equipped with good hotel infrastructure, while maintaining some of its term the most representative farms in the region.

Heritage
Ribamontán Sea has a rich and varied artistic heritage around the town you can admire interesting examples of civil and religious architecture. Nobles mansions, palaces and architecture intermingle all villages with churches, chapels, shrines and monasteries. In an environment where nature accompanies the greatness of the history, the landscape treasures his memory in art forms that speak of the role lived throughout the years.
The observation of both their most monumental structures to small details, simple and humble, as his men left traces of their existence, brings us closer to culture and talks about the lifestyle of a people that has made it clear in its religious heritage, and artistic calendar.

Natural Environment

Ribamontán Sea coastline draw a line that starts east on the border with Bareyo, the stream of Vioño vertically collapses and forms a small mouth hanging. To the west, between Galizano and Loredo, showed a series of limestone cliffs. The waters of the ocean broke through the stony face of the rock causing the collapse of huge rocks and the formation of watch on the big bare coast, its base has provided a broad platform worn by the work of powerful waves that contains a wealth biological. The island of Santa Marina is situated in front of Loredo, stationed near the island of Mouro, is of limestone and the largest of Cantabria. To the west, the coast of the softening and is transformed into a line of sand dunes almost 6 km. in length, to venture into the Bay of Santander bay that is considered the largest estuary of Cantabria, this channel receives water from its mouth Miera that adopts the name Cubas estuary and forms the border between Ribamontán and Pedreña in Cudeyo Navy. The downdraft caused an arrow coast, called The Depth, formed by dunes. This diverse and beautiful environment forms a unique landscape of high conservation value which is part of the so-called SCI, Sites of Community Importance. The whole landscape Ribamontán Sea represents a major tourism values, with miles of coast where they are the most beautiful beaches on the Cantabrian coast and the resort towns of Cantabria par excellence. Likewise, the municipality is one of the most important livestock areas of the region, fueled the intense green result of abundant rainfall spread throughout the year, foggy days and gray color contrasts with its meadows and its sea, highlight special beauty.

The climate. Of influence or Atlantic ocean, is characterized by mild temperatures and warm, the average coldest month, February is around the 9th and the hottest month, August, about 20 º. This rarely extreme weather, with limited temperature fluctuation, but moist, favors the existence in this land of abundant vegetation with a predominance of natural meadows approaching the coast form large pastures.
Life in Ribamontán Sea is closely linked to nature and to live is to know a land where imposing beauty of the landscape.
Sports
Ribamontán Sea is a land where one can enjoy an active, gives a broad picture for the sport in touch with nature and preserves different spaces that can be used in a diverse, enriching and healthy. The tourism industry increasingly demand to enjoy summer avoiding the stereotype, experiencing growing interest holidays is satisfied with the appeal of this Municipality. It offers a wide variety of sporting options. From activities such as hiking, mountain biking or mountain biking, horseback riding, with itineraries for exploring the beauty of its landscape, to other aquatic diversions such as sea kayaking or Surfkayak, it is catch waves with canoes, canoe rentals or canoeing in the Ria de Cubas, to others that are introduced with the growing quest for excitement, as the spectacular flying kites on the beach.
To go rowing, sailing and windsurfing are good waters of the bays. The Beaches of Somo, Loredo and Langre are ideal for enjoying the breaking waves in any mode, a body with fins, for body-boarding or Paipa, highlighting the practice of Surfing, by their characteristic waves in them teachers teach accredited courses being a meeting place for fans of this great sport.

As for diving, much to enjoy watching the diving and the underwater fishing, the coast offers attractive corners, as recommended points between the beach and the tranquil Langre at the base of cliffs, rock formations make a line that separates sea of a long natural swimming pool, known as the pools, where water is kept very quiet, and not excessive with the background, makes this spot in one of the most luminous and transparent to dive in Cantabria. Another point is the strait between the coastline and the Island of Santa Marina, and the two bays of the quiet, with a shallow bedrock rich in vegetation and fauna.
Ribamontán Sea is also included within the hunting area of the central coast, with two fishing grounds: The Puntazo Santoñuca and, where mullet are caught and pout.
On the more traditional sport’s greatest passion has always bowling a sample that combines tradition, sport and ethnography. The mode that is played primarily in the area is the Pasabolo-slab, it is named the large stone slab in the center of the bowling, with nine holes to fit the pins.
And standing out as one of the consolidated sports events, the famed Derby Loredo, horse race that is held on the beach. It consists of various tests that have been gaining importance internationally, with one of their categories in English thoroughbred. Including the participation of agricultural and trucks, dump an entire sports festive show.
Information obtained from www.ribamontanalmar.es