Charro

Not to be confused with Charo.
For the 1969 Western film starring Elvis Presley, see Charro! For the Elvis Presley song, see Charro (song). For the Mexican baseball team, see Charros de Jalisco.
Charro at the charrería event at the San Marcos National Fair in Aguascalientes City.
Female and male charro regalia, including sombreros de charro
Mexican Charro (1828). Originally, the term “Charro” was a derogatory name for the Mexican Rancheros, the inhabitants of the countryside. The term is synonymous with the English terms: “Yokel”, “hick”, “country bumpkin”, or “rube”.

Charro, in Mexico, is historically the horseman from the countryside, the Ranchero, who lived and worked in the haciendas and performed all his tasks on horseback, working mainly as vaqueros and caporales, among other jobs.[1] He was renowned for his superb horsemanship, for his skill in handling the lasso, and for his unique costume designed specially for horseback riding. Today, this name is given to someone who practices charreada (similar to a rodeo), considered the national sport of Mexico which maintains traditional rules and regulations in effect from colonial times up to the Mexican Revolution.[2]

  1. ^ Pérez Benavides, Amada Carolina (2007). "Actores, Escenarios y Relaciones Sociales en Tres Publicaciones Periódicas Mexicanas de Mediados del Siglo XIX". Historia Mexicana (in Spanish). 56 (4). El Colegio de México: 1189. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  2. ^ "REGLAMENTO GENERAL DE COMPETENCIAS" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-20. Retrieved 2016-05-11.