Chupacabras is a 100 km

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race in Juárez,

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. The annual race has taken place every October since 1997. It is sponsored entirely by the private sector and draws more than three thousand competitors each year, primarily from Mexico and the southern states

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. It is named after the mythical monster

Chupacabras The chupacabra or chupacabras (, literally 'goat-sucker'; from es, chupar, 'to suck', and , 'goats') is a legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas, with its first purported sightings reported in Puerto Rico in 1995. The na ...

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