Aliste (comarca)

Aliste is perhaps the poorest zone within the province, the economy of this deeply rural comarca is based on cattle rearing.

There is a national game reserve located in the Sierra de la Culebra (65,981 hectares), which has the largest population of wolves in the Iberian Peninsula.

Other popular foods include pork, which is slaughtered in local ritual festivals believed to originate with the early Celtic inhabitants of the region.

The customs of Aliste are based on long history and legend, with the annual slaughter of livestock (matanza) being a major cultural event.

Alistano is not properly a dialect, but may be considered a variant of Leonese,[1] with a distinct personality influenced by Galician-Portuguese, due to geographic proximity.