The Cilentana Nera is an Italian breed of domestic goat indigenous to the province of Salerno, in Campania in southern Italy.
The range extends to the Monti Picentini[2] and the area of Ricigliano in eastern Campania and Muro Lucano in Basilicata.
The Cilentana Nera is found on higher ground and in poorer pastures than the other two, and it is raised mainly for meat.
[2] The Cilentana Nera is one of the forty-three autochthonous Italian goat breeds of limited distribution for which a herdbook is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep- and goat-breeders.
[5][6] In the 1980s, numbers were very low, and in 1983, it was thought to be close to extinction; however, a census in 2008 found 3683 head,[2] and at the end of 2013 the registered population was variously reported as 2403[7] and as of 2098.