Cañadas, cordeles, Veredas, resting places, hutches, watering holes and contaderos are part of the intricate system that forms the livestock routes, with different and numerous local names.

Depending on where they are located, the royal glens have different names. For example, in Andalusia they are known as veredas de carne; in Aragón they are cabañeras; in Catalonia, carreradas and in Castile, they are called cordones, cordes, galianas or cabañíles, depending on their size.

In Spain, the network of royal canals has a length of 125,000 km (comparatively, the railway has 15,000) and covers 425,000 ha. In Europe as a whole, more than 4 million hectares of grasslands and agricultural land are associated with transhumance.

Livestock routes currently serve not only the transit of livestock but also other purposes worthy of protection.

• Livestock transit. (They must be free and expeditious)

• Agricultural communications.

• Promote biodiversity.

• Genetic exchange of fauna and floristic species.

• Territorial mobility of wildlife.

• Improvement and diversification of the rural landscape.

• Public use.

• Compatible activities (citizen recreation, hiking, cycle tourism, horseback riding, etc.).

Of the nine most important royal canyons, the so-called eastern Soriana is the longest. It begins north of Soria, in Yanguas, crosses the province of Ciudad Real, and ends in Seville, after traveling about 800 km.

From a legal point of view, the width, layout, existence and name of a livestock route is carried out in the administrative act of classification. The margins that limit the livestock trails are legally established in the administrative demarcation procedure, and their materialization on the land, through permanent milestones (cairn "Circumference (sign)"), is carried out in the administrative act of marking.

Legal width.

The Civil Code and Law 3/1995 define the name and maximum width that a livestock track can have. In some sections it may have greater widths as a consequence of the existence of other attached livestock surfaces (for example resting places, watering troughs), in other cases it may have smaller widths as a consequence of its administrative life.

These are the legal widths at present, although until Law 22/1974 their widths were somewhat greater as their equivalence with the Castilian varas was referred to (75.22, 37.71 and 20.89 m respectively). In the century the Vereda Mayor del Valle de Alcudia (Cañada Real Soriana Oriental) reached a width that ranged between 300 and 800 m at its entrance to the valley.

The traditional name of "Cañada Real" to the current Cañada comes from the times of Alfonso

In addition to the livestock routes themselves, there were additional elements that completed and assisted this network of livestock roads:

Community of Madrid

Law 8/1998, of June 15, on livestock routes in the Community of Madrid (B.O.C.M. of June 23, 1998), defines the regulatory and planning instruments that allow rational management of this historical legacy.

The royal Cañadas that run through the Community of Madrid are:

Andalusia

After the entry into force of the 1978 Constitution, livestock routes appear in the Statutes of Autonomy. Specifically, in article 13.7 of the one approved in Andalusia, exclusive competence in this matter is attributed to the autonomous community. (Today, in article 57.1.b of the current Statute, approved by L.O. 2/2007).

Based on this power and the regulatory framework generated after the entry into force of Law 3/1995, Decree 155/1998 is approved, which approves the Regulation of Livestock Routes of Andalusia. These two regulations, together with the Heritage Law, of supplementary application, are the essential legal basis in the management of livestock heritage.

The autonomous community of Andalusia, in the process of recovery and protection of public assets, which presides over the State Law on Livestock Routes, has tried to prioritize and rationalize the work. To this end, the Plan for the Management and Recovery of Livestock Routes in Andalusia was prepared, approved by the Government Council, on March 27, 2001, published in BOJA No. 74, on June 30.

Andalusia has a network of livestock routes of approximately 30,000 km, which represents 25% of the total national network. Until the approval of the aforementioned Management and Recovery Plan, these livestock routes had been managed at the request of the different Administrations and administrations. What is intended is to prioritize and rationalize a very extensive work that began with the aforementioned Plan. The livestock routes have been catalogued, setting priority levels and assigning them certain uses, which direct the Ministry of the Environment itself in the different actions to be undertaken and which can set the criteria when deciding whether we are facing an essential livestock route or not.

The powers over livestock trails in Andalusia are assigned to the Department of the Environment of the Government of Andalusia.

Cañadas, cordeles, Veredas, resting places, hutches, watering holes and contaderos are part of the intricate system that forms the livestock routes, with different and numerous local names.

Depending on where they are located, the royal glens have different names. For example, in Andalusia they are known as veredas de carne; in Aragón they are cabañeras; in Catalonia, carreradas and in Castile, they are called cordones, cordes, galianas or cabañíles, depending on their size.

In Spain, the network of royal canals has a length of 125,000 km (comparatively, the railway has 15,000) and covers 425,000 ha. In Europe as a whole, more than 4 million hectares of grasslands and agricultural land are associated with transhumance.

Livestock routes currently serve not only the transit of livestock but also other purposes worthy of protection.

• Livestock transit. (They must be free and expeditious)

• Agricultural communications.

• Promote biodiversity.

• Genetic exchange of fauna and floristic species.

• Territorial mobility of wildlife.

• Improvement and diversification of the rural landscape.

• Public use.

• Compatible activities (citizen recreation, hiking, cycle tourism, horseback riding, etc.).

Of the nine most important royal canyons, the so-called eastern Soriana is the longest. It begins north of Soria, in Yanguas, crosses the province of Ciudad Real, and ends in Seville, after traveling about 800 km.

From a legal point of view, the width, layout, existence and name of a livestock route is carried out in the administrative act of classification. The margins that limit the livestock trails are legally established in the administrative demarcation procedure, and their materialization on the land, through permanent milestones (cairn "Circumference (sign)"), is carried out in the administrative act of marking.

Legal width.

The Civil Code and Law 3/1995 define the name and maximum width that a livestock track can have. In some sections it may have greater widths as a consequence of the existence of other attached livestock surfaces (for example resting places, watering troughs), in other cases it may have smaller widths as a consequence of its administrative life.

These are the legal widths at present, although until Law 22/1974 their widths were somewhat greater as their equivalence with the Castilian varas was referred to (75.22, 37.71 and 20.89 m respectively). In the century the Vereda Mayor del Valle de Alcudia (Cañada Real Soriana Oriental) reached a width that ranged between 300 and 800 m at its entrance to the valley.

The traditional name of "Cañada Real" to the current Cañada comes from the times of Alfonso

In addition to the livestock routes themselves, there were additional elements that completed and assisted this network of livestock roads:

Community of Madrid

Law 8/1998, of June 15, on livestock routes in the Community of Madrid (B.O.C.M. of June 23, 1998), defines the regulatory and planning instruments that allow rational management of this historical legacy.

The royal Cañadas that run through the Community of Madrid are:

Andalusia

After the entry into force of the 1978 Constitution, livestock routes appear in the Statutes of Autonomy. Specifically, in article 13.7 of the one approved in Andalusia, exclusive competence in this matter is attributed to the autonomous community. (Today, in article 57.1.b of the current Statute, approved by L.O. 2/2007).

Based on this power and the regulatory framework generated after the entry into force of Law 3/1995, Decree 155/1998 is approved, which approves the Regulation of Livestock Routes of Andalusia. These two regulations, together with the Heritage Law, of supplementary application, are the essential legal basis in the management of livestock heritage.

The autonomous community of Andalusia, in the process of recovery and protection of public assets, which presides over the State Law on Livestock Routes, has tried to prioritize and rationalize the work. To this end, the Plan for the Management and Recovery of Livestock Routes in Andalusia was prepared, approved by the Government Council, on March 27, 2001, published in BOJA No. 74, on June 30.

Andalusia has a network of livestock routes of approximately 30,000 km, which represents 25% of the total national network. Until the approval of the aforementioned Management and Recovery Plan, these livestock routes had been managed at the request of the different Administrations and administrations. What is intended is to prioritize and rationalize a very extensive work that began with the aforementioned Plan. The livestock routes have been catalogued, setting priority levels and assigning them certain uses, which direct the Ministry of the Environment itself in the different actions to be undertaken and which can set the criteria when deciding whether we are facing an essential livestock route or not.

The powers over livestock trails in Andalusia are assigned to the Department of the Environment of the Government of Andalusia.