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Chagras

Chagra or Cowboy

Chagra or Cowboy

Gabriel Espinosa of Hacienda Alegria

Chagras are skilled Andean cowboys. Dressed in ordinary clothes or in traditional llama or goat-skin chaps, astride a well-trained, responsive mount and using trditional saddle with intricate leather-work and saddle horn, these horsemen are prepared and able to deal with any situation.

Mounted on their Andean Criole, Pinto and Paso Andalusian, or Quartercross horses, and wearing a poncho and hat low over their eyes, the chagras can entertain you with tales of horsemanship and rodeo-ing.

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