Country:
Argentina
State:
La Pampa
The Argentinean gaucho´s world.
By Walter Cazenave
Nestor Carro pulling the lead mare to make shapes on the land, the stain of this tropilla is a sorrel-colored. The same one has also strange color in its own country. The tropilla is a tool, a companion, a pride and the introduction letter of the gauchos
In La Pampa one of the most deep rooted traditions are the tropillas, troop of horses lead by a lead mare, trained to perform different works in the fields. Now a days, this traditional job of tropillero remained forgotten for decades, but now it has received a new impulse and also are common in the popular festivities with parades and exhibitions of the best tropillas where they show the skills of their animals. Their uniform color hair distinguishes each group of tropillas, as well as, the shape of the troop beside their lead mare, keeping the right order that requires the choreography.

The estancia is one of the most typical housing in the argentinean fields, it is a kind of a rural establishment with certain productive entity, it's extension may vary according the region. Its origins date back to colonial times.
Don Luis Rivero wearing its classical formal suit that dates to the ends the XIX century.
The gaucho's dressing begins with a black hat, white shirt and a handkerchief around the neck. Corralera liviana, is a kind of blouse or a short vest Tirador (rastra belt) done with capybara leather decorated with gold and silver, specially with Spanish coins called carolus. He does not wear the bombacha (knickers) ,it was later used , he wears the traditional calzoncillo cribadio with the edges meticulously worked. Over it, wears a chiripá (gaucho's dress trousers, made of an embroidered worsted shawl with a corner drawn between the legs over the lace pantaloons) An the last thing are the Botas de potro ( piece without hills made with the animal's shank. ) where the repousé silver spurs are held, matching with the material of the rebenque (the riding crop that Don Rivero holds in his hand)
Lately the Villaverde estancia became a place for ecological tourism. Beside this area a replica of a fortín from the end of last century was built as a memory of the Desert Conquer, since here took place several battles between the Indians and the troops of the national army.
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