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Semana Criolla

In Uruguay's Holy Week, the Prado in Montevideo fills with gauchos, horses, rodeo and the culture of the cattle country.

A tile drawn for this day, not a photograph.

Cattle at Semana Criolla

Uruguay calls Holy Week Semana de Turismo, and in Montevideo it is the week of the Semana Criolla, held since 1925 at the Rural del Prado. Gauchos from across the country come to compete in jineteadas, the riding of unbroken horses, and to show their skills with the lasso and the bola. There are asados of beef cooked on open fires, folk music, crafts and stalls of leather and silver. The festival celebrates the culture of the estancias where cattle have been raised on open grassland since the seventeenth century, in a country that has more cattle than people.

The breeds

HerefordThe main beef breed of Uruguay's grasslands.

Also part of it, and being written: Aberdeen Angus (A leading breed of the estancias.), Criollo cattle (The cattle of the colonial era, ancestors of the first herds.).

About this page

Written by the EveryCow desk with AI assistance. Background: "Tourism Week" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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