Limiana

Limiana
Conservation status
  • FAO (2007): critical-maintained
  • DAD-IS (2025): at risk/endangered-maintained
Other namesLimiá
Country of originSpain
DistributionGalicia
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    Average: 900 kg
  • Female:
    Average: 490 kg
Height
  • Male:
    • Average: 143 cm
    • Range: 135–160 cm
  • Female:
    • Average: 137 cm
    • Range: 133–155 cm
Coatchestnut, darker on the extremities and forward third of the body
Horn statushorned
  • Cattle
  • Bos (primigenius) taurus

The Limiana or Raza Limiá is a Spanish breed of domestic cattle. It is named for the comarca of A Limia, in the southern part of the Province of Ourense, in Galicia in north-west Spain. It is the largest of the cattle breeds of Galicia.

It is one of the five Galician breeds that together make up the Morena Gallega grouping of chestnut-coloured cattle, the others being the Cachena, the Caldelana, the Frieiresa and the Vianesa, which with the Alistana-Sanabresa and the Sayaguesa of Castile and León and the extinct Verinesa also form the broader Morenas del Noroeste grouping of similar cattle breeds.

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