Busto

Busto is a small locality in the province of A Coruña, Galicia, on the Camino de Fisterra and Muxía routes. The name derives from busto, an archaic Galician and Portuguese term for a cattle farm or cattle pasture, indicating that the settlement developed on or around communal livestock grazing land. The term is related to the Latin bustum.

The locality sits in the plateau terrain of the central Fisterra route, in a landscape of mixed farming and grassland typical of the A Coruña interior. Cattle farming remains a central part of the Galician rural economy, and the pastoral origin of the place name reflects a land use tradition that continues in the region.