Campeiro

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Campeiro
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Important data
Origin: Brazil
Main breeding area: Santa Catarina
Distribution:
Stick measure : 146 cm
Colors : Fox, brown, gray mold
Main application area: Shepherd horse, riding horse, light draft horse

The Campeiro - literally field horse - popularly as Marchador the Araucárias referred (untranslatable folklore with multiple simultaneous meanings), is a Brazilian horse breed, which has its origins in the 16th century, when Spanish and Portuguese horses in the Plateau of Santa Catarina located were.

Background information on horse evaluation and breeding can be found under: Exterior , interior and horse breeding .

Exterior

The Campeiro is a riding horse and light draft horse. The height of the stick is at least 1.42 cm for stallions and 1.40 cm for mares. The average height is 146 cm. The fur colors are mainly foxes, browns and gray molds.

Breeding history

In 1546, Spanish Jesuits brought Portuguese and Spanish horses to the Santa Catarina plateau, where they lived as a wild herd. These horses were forgotten for about a century.

Their rediscovery and thus the first official mention of the presence of wild horses in the Kapitanie - in colonial times, today's states were called Kapitaniën - Santa Catarina happened in the 17th century when the Caminho dos Conventos (= route to the monasteries) of Araranguá, SC, in the mountain forests of the Serra Geral was opened.

From the 19th century, for breed refinement, and in particular by the Belgian Dr. Vincent from 1912, the original Campeiros crossed with English and Arabian thoroughbreds , which greatly improved their physique and their usefulness both in cattle work and in Raia horse races (= horse races as they often take place in England at popular festivals).

Breeding of campers' horses soon found widespread popularity in the plateaus of the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul as well as in the pinhais area, state of Paraná. In the pinhais area, however, the Guarapuara - also known as Guarapuavano - predominated, while the Crioulo in general spread from the Rio Grande do Sul over southern Brazil. Campeiro breeding is now limited to the route between the cities of Lages and Curitibanos .

In the 1970s, the Campeiro was seriously threatened with extinction. In 1976, the Associação Brasileira de Criadores de Cavalo Campeiro (ABRACCC) breeders' association was founded to ensure the preservation of the breed.

literature

  • Larousse dos Cavalos , São Paulo, SP: Larousse do Brasil, 2006
  • Associação Brasileira dos Criadores de Cavalos Campeiros (ABRACCC): Campeiro, o Marchador das Araucárias , Curitibanos, SC: Associação Brasileira dos Criadores de Cavalos Campeiros, 1984
  • Associação Brasileira dos Criadores de Cavalos Campeiros (ABRACCC): Regulamento do Registro Genealógico do Cavalo Campeiro , Curitibanos, SC: Associação Brasileira dos Criadores de Cavalos Campeiros, 1984

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Domestic Animal Diversity Information System: Campeiro / Brazil. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, accessed on July 8, 2009 (English, Country → Brazil, Species → horse / select “Campeiro” from the list).
  2. ↑ a b Campeiros - Raças - Equinos. (No longer available online.) Equinocultura, archived from the original on December 31, 2012 ; Retrieved July 8, 2009 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ a b MCMANUS, Concepta et al. Morphological characterization of the Campeiro horse breed. R. Bras. Zootec. 2005, vol. 34, n.5, pp. 1553-1562. Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, accessed July 8, 2009 (Portuguese, with English abstract).