Cattle towns, fairs and pastures
199 places where cattle are bred, traded, shown and honoured, with a trail idea for each.
South Asia
Pasture, India, 1 breedBundelkhandPasture, India, 1 breedChitoor DistrictPasture, Bangladesh, 1 breedChittagong Hill TractsPasture, India, 1 breedDangsPasture, India, 1 breedDeccan PlateauPasture, India, 1 breedGangaPasture, India, 1 breedGir HillsPasture, India, 1 breedHaryanaPasture, Myanmar, 1 breedKachin StatePasture, India, 1 breedKathiawarPasture, India, 1 breedKathiawar PeninsulaPasture, India, 1 breedKrishna RiverPasture, India, 1 breedMalwa plateauPasture, India, 1 breedNarmada valleyPasture, India, 1 breedPrakasam DistrictPasture, India, 1 breedPunjabPasture, India, 1 breedRajkot districtPasture, India, 1 breedRann of KutchPasture, India, 1 breedThar DesertPasture, India, 1 breedVindhyasPasture, IndiaAjjampura and the Amrit Mahal kavalsThe breeding station of the Amrit Mahal, the royal draught cattle of Mysore, kept on reserved grasslands called kavals.Pasture, IndiaAlmora and the Badri hillsThe Kumaon hills where the small Badri cow, the first registered breed of Uttarakhand, grazes forest slopes.Pasture, BhutanBumthangBhutan's central valleys, where Siri cattle, yaks and mithun crosses share high pastures around old temples.Pasture, IndiaChangthangThe high plateau of eastern Ladakh, where Changpa herders move yaks, sheep and pashmina goats between pastures above 4,000 metres.Pasture, IndiaChümoukedima DistrictPasture, NepalNamche Bazaar and the KhumbuThe Sherpa trading village below Everest, where yaks and dzo carry loads and a weekly market fills on Saturdays.Pasture, ChinaSalween River basinPasture, PakistanTharparkarThe Sindhi desert that gave its name to the Tharparkar cow, grazed by herders who move with the monsoon rains.
East Asia
Pasture, Japan, 1 breedAkita PrefecturePasture, Japan, 1 breednorthern HonshuPasture, Japan, 1 breedTajimaPasture, Japan, 1 breedTsushima IslandPasture, Japan, 1 breedYamaguchi PrefecturePasture, MongoliaArkhangaiThe green Khangai uplands of central Mongolia, where herding families keep yaks, cattle and their hybrids alongside horses, sheep and goats.Pasture, Russiasouthern Baikal region
Sub-Saharan Africa
Pasture, Senegal, 1 breedCasamancePasture, Ethiopia, 1 breedGambella Regional StatePasture, Guinea, 1 breedGuinea highlandsPasture, South Africa, 1 breedhighveldPasture, EthiopiaBorana and the singing wellsThe southern Ethiopian rangeland that gave the world the Boran cow, watered in the dry season at deep wells where herders sing.Pasture, South SudanBor and the Dinka cattle campsOn the White Nile in South Sudan, where Dinka herders move to riverside cattle camps in the dry season.Pasture, MaliDiafarabé and the cattle crossingA village on the Niger in Mali where Fulani herders swim their cattle across the river each year in a festival of return.Pasture, GuineaFouta DjallonThe highlands of Guinea, homeland of the N'Dama, a small humpless cow that resists sleeping sickness.Pasture, ChadLake Chad and the KuriThe islands and shores of Lake Chad, home of the Kuri, cattle with huge swollen horns that swim between grazing grounds.Pasture, Ethiopiasouthern EthiopiaPasture, South SudanTerekeka and the Mundari campsCattle camps on the Nile north of Juba, where Mundari herders keep tall, long-horned cattle in clouds of smoke.Pasture, KenyaThe Maasai MaraRangeland in south-west Kenya where Maasai herders graze cattle beside one of Africa's great wildlife reserves.Pasture, South AfricaZululand and the NguniThe hills of northern KwaZulu-Natal, home of the Nguni cow, whose patterned hides have hundreds of names in isiZulu.
Europe
Pasture, United Kingdom, 2 breedsYorkshirePasture, France, 1 breedAuvergne-Rhône-AlpesPasture, Spain, 1 breedBalearic IslandsPasture, France, 1 breedBasse-NormandiePasture, Germany, 1 breedBavariaPasture, France, 1 breedBeaufortainPasture, Ukraine, 1 breedBeremytske Nature ParkPasture, France, 1 breedBrittanyPasture, France, 1 breedBruche valleyPasture, Ireland, 1 breedCounty DonegalPasture, United Kingdom, 1 breedCounty DownPasture, Ireland, 1 breedCounty LeitrimPasture, Ireland, 1 breedCounty SligoPasture, Sweden, 1 breedDalarnaPasture, Russia, 1 breedEast PrussiaPasture, Germany, 1 breedFalkenthaler RieselfelderPasture, Spain, 1 breedGaliciaSpain's green north-west, land of the blond Rubia Gallega and the small Cachena with its great horns.Pasture, Italy, 1 breedIsarco valleyPasture, Sweden, 1 breedKynnefjällPasture, United Kingdom, 1 breedLancashirePasture, Croatia, 1 breedLika plainsPasture, Italy, 1 breedLombardyPasture, United Kingdom, 1 breedLuingPasture, France, 1 breedMainePasture, Italy, 1 breedMarchePasture, Italy, 1 breedMaremmaPasture, France, 1 breedMauriennePasture, Spain, 1 breedMenorcaPasture, Italy, 1 breedMonte AmiataPasture, United Kingdom, 1 breedNorfolkPasture, France, 1 breedPays de la LoirePasture, Hungary, 1 breedPentezugPasture, Austria, 1 breedPinzgauThe mountain valleys of Salzburg that gave their name to the chestnut Pinzgauer, with its white stripe along the back.Pasture, France, 1 breedPoitou-CharentesPasture, Italy, 1 breedPuster ValleyPasture, Portugal, 1 breedRamo GrandePasture, Poland, 1 breedRomincka ForestPasture, France, 1 breedSaône-et-LoirePasture, United Kingdom, 1 breedScarbaPasture, Switzerland, 1 breedSimmentalPasture, Italy, 1 breedSouth TyrolPasture, United Kingdom, 1 breedSuffolkPasture, France, 1 breedTarentaisePasture, Norway, 1 breedTelemarkPasture, Italy, 1 breedTiber ValleyPasture, United Kingdom, 1 breedTorsaPasture, Austria, 1 breedTuxertalPasture, Switzerland, 1 breedVal d'HérensPasture, Italy, 1 breedValdichianaPasture, Ireland, 1 breedValentia IslandPasture, Italy, 1 breedVallon de Saint-BarthélemyPasture, Italy, 1 breedVallon d'OllomontPasture, Italy, 1 breedValpellinePasture, Italy, 1 breedVenetoPasture, Austria, 1 breedVorarlbergPasture, France, 1 breedVosges MountainsPasture, Germany, 1 breedWerdenfels CountryPasture, United Kingdom, 1 breedWestmorlandPasture, Austria, 1 breedZillertalPasture, United KingdomAberdeenPasture, NetherlandsAchterhoekPasture, SpainÁlavaPasture, SpainA LimiaPasture, SpainAlta RibagorçaPasture, SpainAlt UrgellPasture, ItalyAosta and the bataille de reinesAn Alpine valley where cows meet in head-pushing contests through the summer, and the queen of queens is crowned in October.Pasture, SwitzerlandAppenzellAn eastern Swiss canton where herders in red waistcoats lead brown cows with great bells up to the summer pastures.Pasture, SwitzerlandAproz and the combats de reinesA village near Sion in the Valais that hosts the national final of the cow fights of the black Hérens breed each spring.Pasture, SpainAsturias and the Picos de EuropaGreen mountain country in northern Spain, where native valley and mountain cattle graze high summer pastures called brañas.Pasture, PortugalBarrosoA highland of northern Portugal where village bulls with huge horns meet in the chega de bois, and old communal farming survives.Pasture, SpainBay of BiscayPasture, SpainBizkaiaPasture, United KingdomBuchanPasture, FranceCamarguePasture, SpainCerdanyaPasture, FranceCouseransPasture, United KingdomCravenPasture, SwedenDalarna and the summer farmsSwedish forest country where cows are still taken to summer farms in the woods and called home with high, ringing herding songs.Pasture, United KingdomEnglish MidlandsPasture, SpainEnkarterriPasture, IcelandEyjafjörðurIceland's main dairy valley, home of a cattle breed kept isolated since the Norse settlers brought it more than a thousand years ago.Pasture, ItalyGargano PeninsulaPasture, FranceGâtine VendéennePasture, SpainGipuzkoaPasture, United KingdomGlamorganPasture, NetherlandsGroningenPasture, FranceHaut-PoitouPasture, United KingdomHebridesPasture, HungaryHortobágyThe great Hungarian puszta, where herds of grey long-horned cattle graze under the eye of mounted herdsmen.Pasture, CroatiaIstria and the BoškarinThe Croatian peninsula whose grey, lyre-horned Boškarin oxen were saved from near extinction in the 1990s.Pasture, RussiaKalmykiaThe steppe republic on the lower Volga, home of the Kalmyk people and of the red Kalmyk cattle they brought from Central Asia.Pasture, RussiaKostroma OblastPasture, FranceMassif CentralPasture, PortugalMontadoPasture, NetherlandsNoord-BrabantPasture, SpainPallars SobiràPasture, FrancePays d'AugeThe Normandy orchard country of Camembert, Livarot and Pont-l'Évêque, grazed by the spectacled Normande cow.Pasture, FrancePetite CamarguePasture, FrancePlateau de l'AubracPasture, SpainPyreneesPasture, SpainRipollèsPasture, FranceSaintongePasture, NetherlandsSallandPasture, SpainSayagoPasture, United KingdomScottish HighlandsPasture, SpainSerra da CarbaPasture, PortugalSerra da PadrelaPasture, SpainSerra de LourenzáPasture, SpainSerra de XistralPasture, PortugalSerra do AlvãoPasture, PortugalSerra do MarãoPasture, United KingdomSouth DownsPasture, PortugalTerra de MirandaPasture, GermanyThe Allgäu and the ViehscheidThe green foothills of the Alps in southern Germany, where brown cows are brought down from the mountains in September.Pasture, FranceThe AubracA high granite plateau in the Massif Central where decorated cows walk up to summer pasture at a festival in late May.Pasture, FranceThe BeaufortainA Savoie valley of high summer pastures, where red Tarine and Abondance cows give milk for Beaufort cheese.Pasture, FranceThe CamargueThe Rhône delta, where gardians on white horses herd small black bulls for the course camarguaise, in which the bull is not killed.Pasture, SwitzerlandThe EmmentalThe green hill country of Bern that gave its name to the cheese with holes, made from the milk of red and white cows.Pasture, FranceThe LimousinThe granite uplands of west-central France that gave the world the golden-red Limousin beef breed.Pasture, SwitzerlandThe SimmentalA valley of the Bernese Oberland whose red and white cattle became one of the most numerous breeds on earth.Pasture, AustriaThe Zillertal and TuxA Tyrolean valley that gave its name to the Tux-Zillertal cattle, with Tyrol Grey herds on neighbouring alpine pastures.Pasture, NetherlandsTwentePasture, United KingdomTywi ValleyPasture, RussiaUpper VolgaPasture, SpainUrraúl AltoPasture, SpainVal d'AranPasture, ItalyVal di ChianaA broad Tuscan valley that gave its name to the Chianina, the tallest cattle breed in the world.Pasture, FranceVallée d'AspePasture, FranceVallée d'AurePasture, SwedenVassjönPasture, FranceVendéePasture, United KingdomWestern Islands
Latin America and the Caribbean
Pasture, Brazil, 1 breedCerradoPasture, Brazil, 1 breedMinas GeraisPasture, Brazil, 1 breedSapucaiaPasture, ColombiaThe LlanosThe flooded and sun-dried plains of the Orinoco basin, cattle country since Jesuit missions brought herds in the seventeenth century.Pasture, ArgentinaThe Pampas and San Antonio de ArecoThe flat grasslands of Argentina, cattle country since colonial days, and the gaucho town that celebrates their traditions.Pasture, BrazilThe PantanalThe world's largest tropical wetland, where cattle have grazed seasonal floodplains alongside wildlife for more than two centuries.