CAO DE CASTRO LABOREIRO

The Cão de Castro Laboreiro is a Portuguese race of dog of great size. Original of the north of the country, this moloso owns the one alive intelligence, reason why it is between the favorite races used by the police lusa.

The race is original of the Portuguese town of I castrate Laboreiro, from which its name is derived. Although it is known from very remote times and today always frequent in this town, it does not exist any positive data that allows to establish its origin of absolute way. To similarity of the Dog of the Serra de Estrela, it must belong to one of the old races but of the Iberian Peninsula. Its diffusion is limited by mountains of Peneda and Suajo and by the Minho rivers and Lima. One is him in variable altitudes until near 1,400 meters.

They can be exemplary also additional of this race in other places to borders of the Minho and in the province of the Douro. Rarely the south of Portugal propagates in center and, where it happens inadvertent.