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Rapa Das Bestas

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 Rapa das Bestas is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros, enclosed which retain the horses, held in various locations in

Rapa das Bestas is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros, enclosed which retain the horses, held in various locations in Galicia, Spain. Those horses live in mountains owned by the villages and have several owners. Each year the foal are marked and the adults shaved and deloused, and then freed again to the mountains.

The best known is the Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo.

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