"Valley of extensive chestnut trees that is connected to Monterrei" who wrote about A Mosque Ramón Otero Pedrayo; they are lands of true mountain ranges and fractured peneplains with an oceanic climate of mountain, characterized by low average temperatures (5º C in winter and 15,5º C in summer) and high precipitations. That is why the name of the geographical area in which A Mezquita is located is "Terra das Frieiras", translated as, the land in which it feels very cold, characterized by low average temperatures (5º C in winter and 15,5º C in summer) and high precipitations, to which the "frieiresa", a native cow in danger of extinction, adapts well.