Tierra de Campos is a large historical and natural region or greater comarca that straddles the provinces of León, Zamora, Valladolid and Palencia, in Castile and León, Spain. It is a vast, desolate plain with practically no relief, except for some wide undulations of the terrain.
Cultivated fields in northern Valladolid Province
Characteristic Tierra de Campos landscape near Abastas.
Traditional dovecote in Tierra de Campos
In Spain, a comarca
is either a traditional territorial division without any formal basis, or a group of municipalities, legally defined by an autonomous community for the purpose of providing common local government services.
In English, a comarca is equivalent to a district, county, area or zone.
Comarcas of Andalusia