La Federación Mexicana de Charrería (The Mexican Federation of Charreria) regulates ''

charrería ''Charrería'' (), also known historically as Jaripeo, is the national sport of Mexico and a discipline arising from equestrian activities and livestock traditions used in the ''haciendas'' of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Evolving from the ...

'' events in Mexico. ''Charrería'', officially the National Sport of Mexico, consists of a series of Mexican

equestrian The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse". Horseback riding (or riding in British English) Examples of this are: *Equestrian sports *Equestrian order, one of the upper classes in ...

events rooted in the horsemanship brought over from Spain during their conquest of the New World. The most noted event is the ''charreada'', or Mexican rodeo. Originally chartered on December 16, 1933, in Mexico City as the ''Federación Nacional de Charros'' (National Federation of Charros), the purpose was to unify all the various ''

charro ''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. He was ren ...

'' organizations. The ''charros'' had organized themselves during the 1920s to preserve the customs and culture that were quickly disappearing following the breakup of the haciendas by the Mexican revolutionaries.

External links

Federación Mexicana de Charrería (in Spanish)
Charreada Rodeo in Mexico {{Rodeo-stub