Salto de las Rosas Goucho Show

Set Ref:116

Date:25/03/2010

During the 19th century when the first European settlers arrived in Argentina they brought their horses and cattle with them. Some animals escaped domestication and quickly populated the fertile pampas, and from these free resources emerged the gaucho, relying on the cattle for food and clothing and the horses for transportation.
The modern day gaucho still travels from town to town performing valuable seasonal work on the estancias, especially to the west of Buenos Aires, and exhibit their skills at the country bordilleros (horse shows). These pictures are of the annual bordillero at Salto de las Rosas in Mendoza province.