Vianesa

Vianesa
Image from an information placard on the breed
Conservation status
  • FAO (2007): endangered-maintained[1]: 107 
  • DAD-IS (2023): at risk/endangered-maintained[2]
Country of originSpain
DistributionGalicia
StandardMinisterio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación (page 12, in Spanish)
Usebeef[3]
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    850 kg[4]
  • Female:
    560 kg[4]
Height
  • Male:
    138 cm[4]
  • Female:
    132 cm[4]
Coatdark chestnut brown, variable[4]
Horn statushorned
  • Cattle
  • Bos (primigenius) taurus

The Vianesa is a traditional Spanish breed of cattle originating in the autonomous community of Galicia in north-western Spain. It is named either for the municipality of Viana do Bolo in the province of Ourense in south-eastern Galicia, close to the border with northern Portugal, or for the comarca of Viana in which that municipality lies.[5]: 164 [6] With the Cachena, the Caldelana [es] or Caldelá, the Frieiresa [es] and the Limiana [es] or Limiá, it forms part of the grouping of dark brown cattle known as the Morena Galega or Morenas del Noroeste (roughly 'dark-browns of the north-west').[7]: 251 

It is an endangered breed: in 2023 it was listed in DAD-IS as 'at risk/endangered-maintained'.[2] The population in 2022 was just under 3000 head in 56 farms, almost all in Galicia; about 80 cattle were at a farm in Castilla y León.[8]

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