Algarvia (cattle)

Algarvia
Conservation status
  • FAO (2007): extinct[1]: 92 
  • DAD-IS (2025): critical-maintained[2]        
Country of originPortugal
DistributionAlgarve
  • Cattle
  • Bos (primigenius) taurus

The Algarvia is a Portuguese breed of triple-purpose cattle originating in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. It is a historic breed of the region, documented as such from 1868.[3]: 300  After a period of cross-breeding with imported Charolaise and Limousine stock in the second half of the twentieth century, the original breed came to be considered extinct.[4]: 10 [5]: 28 [6]: 3  It was re-established in the early twenty-first century from a small nucleus of surviving animals.[3]: 300 [7]: 103 [4]: 10 

The breed society is the Associação de Criadores de Gado do Algarve. In 2024 the breeding stock consisted of 25 cows and 2 bulls, in two herds.[8]

The coat is red or chestnut in colour,[4]: 10  darker than the golden yellow of the original breed.[3]: 300  Body weights are greater than in the original breed, at about 600 kg for cows and 800 kg for bulls.[7]: 103 

References

  1. ^ Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
  2. ^ Breed data sheet: Garvonesa / Portugal (Cattle). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed December 2025.
  3. ^ a b c Marleen Felius (2025). Cattle Breeds: An Encyclopedia. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004449015.
  4. ^ a b c [s.n.] (2021). Catálogo Oficial de Raças Autóctones Portuguesas (in Portuguese). Lisboa: Confederação dos Agricultores de Portugal; Direção-Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária. Archived 19 January 2024.
  5. ^ Valerie Porter, Ian Lauder Mason (2020). Mason's World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types and Varieties (sixth edition). Wallingford; Boston: CABI. ISBN 9781789241532.
  6. ^ Luís Telo da Gama, Nuno Carolino, Mário Simões Costa, Claudino Pereira de Matos (editors) (2004). Recursos genéticos animais em Portugal. Vale de Santarém: Relatório Nacional. 68; archived 26 March 2023. Annex to: Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 10 January 2017.
  7. ^ a b Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 9781780647944.
  8. ^ Bovinos – Raça Garvonesa (in Portuguese). Vale de Santarém: Sociedade Portuguesa de Recursos Genéticos Animais. Archived 17 December 2025.


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