English-Spanish translations for transhumance

• trashumancia
  Yo mismo vengo de una región en donde hay montañas, trashumancia de corderos. I myself come from a region where there are mountains and where transhumance is practised, in our case with flocks of sheep.
  También agradezco al ponente que haya prestado atención al pastoreo tradicional y a la trashumancia, que es totalmente esencial en las regiones de montaña. I am also very grateful to the rapporteur for paying attention to traditional pasturing and transhumance, which is absolutely essential in mountain regions.
  Se produjo un rápido aumento del precio de los cereales, la caída del precio del ganado, una trashumancia masiva y prematura de los rebaños y escasez de alimentos locales en los mercados. There was a rapid increase in the price of grain, a drop in the price of livestock, a mass and premature transhumance of herds and a shortage of local food products at the markets.

Definition of transhumance

• The seasonal movement of people, with their cattle or other grazing animals, to new pastures which may be quite distant

Related words

• transhuman
• transhumanism
• transhumanation