First thing in the morning, the ranchers go up the mountain and drive the wild horses to the curro. Then you can have something to eat on the mountain, in the canteens surrounding the outdoor pen. The one and only event is the celebration of the rapa. The ranchers enter the pen and using traditional methods they identify and choose their horses, clean them and cut their manes before branding the new animals
As with many Galician towns, it is the lashers that have to catch the horses in the so-called curro, using the lassoOrigin and history. The presence of wild horses and their domestication was already documented in prehistoric times, etched onto granite surfaces. Roman historians also mentioned the horses in the west of the Iberian peninsula, the Galician horses, more specifically the lampón and tieldón breed. During the Middle Ages, in the 13th century the presence of mares and wild horses belonging to the Monastery of Oia was already documented, and from the 18th century onwards there are records of the existence of the curro, through a forum that mentions the monastery’s rights to “catch and corral” the animals.
