Autonomous Community of Cantabria, Spain Genealogy

Guide to Cantabria, an autonomous community, ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

The autonomous community of Cantabria is located in northern Spain on the Bay of Biscay. The capital is Santander. Boundaries of the Cantabria| province of Cantabria and the autonomous community are the same.

Cantabria Provinces
The Autonomous Community of Cantabria has no provinces but is divided up into regions called comarcas, but traditionally, other subdivisions of the territory have been used.

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