Paḷḷuezu is spoken in the upper half of the valley of the Sil River, in the comarca of El Bierzo, which is in the northwest of the Province of León, and to a minor extent in the province of Asturias, in the lands north of this portion of the Sil valley.
[3][4][5][6] (The toponym Ribas de Sil occurs also in Galician speaking territory to the west, in the neighboring Province of Lugo.)
The latter spelling is current in publications of the Paḷḷuezu literary revival that has been underway since approximately 2006.
The main consonantal features distinguishing this dialect from Spanish (many of which are common to Astur-Leonese generally) are:[7] In 2006, an anthology was published, Cuentos del Sil [Tales of the Sil] (Severiano Alvarez and eight other authors), Na Nuesa Ḷḷingua.
For the year 2009, the Asociación Club Xeitu de la Montaña Occidental Astur-Leonesa (founded 2009) started an annual literary competition, the Certamen Lliterariu "Guzmán Álvarez".