abstract:Dehesa is a multifunctional agrosylvopastoral system (a type of agroforestry) and cultural landscape of southern and central Spain and southern Portugal, where it is known as Montado (Fra.Paleo 2010).
To understand, one must first go back thousands of years to Phoenician times, when black-hooved pigs (another name for the breed is pata negra, or black hoof) were introduced to an oak-grove ecosystem in southwestern Spain known as the dehesa.