Silver Mules
This animal sterile, and thus a perishable commodity, produced great benefits in their breeding grounds, to be indispensable in the mines of Upper Peru. The mule is a beast of burden of safe passage, not melted down, supports a lot of weight at high altitudes, have hard hooves YMS sin than that of a horse, and a natural resistance to diseases and insects . For the extraction of silver mules in places such as Mount San Luis Potosi in Upper Per colonial, was the more appropriate vehicle to carry mine mouth down loads of ore that drew mitayos of the mountain. Ningn No other animal capable of supporting such work, to 5000 meters. Slo tena one drawback: it is a hybrid animal, father and mother donkey mare. Having the genetic structures slightly different, these two animal species that breed microns can not be played, are Sterile. Therefore, it should be replaced by new silver mules at the end of its cycle of use. This replacement was without a doubt guaranteed, since the exhausting and dangerous work, keep the number of animals available provided below of the number needed. In the Economic structure generated in the colony explotacin derived from mining, this problem is used. Livestock areas with good horses, is entirely devoted to produce mules, because they are paid with silver coins minted in the same area where trabajarn in Potos. Such is the case of Buenos Aires around the colony. Once extinct wild cattle near the city, their pastures are utilized in this new activity, lucrative and advantageous because it allows to send a product to the mines, and exchanges in the way back, which yield more profit n. Create the beginning of the Economic triangulacin to generate wealth in all of the little colony. silver mules are bred from mares young people chosen for their endurance, strength and vitality. They are locked up pen in his zeal, and he put a horse stallion, called plaque. It was called as the last member to have a cut on his scrotum, which does not allow the penetration of the female. The horse, equally excited, courted her, and kicks and bites received in the process. When the mare was sufficiently raised, the stallion was removed tally and get into the corral to a donkey, who effected the impregnacin s female. NACAN silver mules and grow in the excellent grasslands near Buenos Aires, and in ten months, was a troop, which will be conducted slowly northward. He wintered in fields located in Salta, fattening the pack animals to recover from the journey, and in the spring, they entered the market Potos. Their pay the first step to creating a series of purchases on the way back from the muleteers, carters now to begin another cycle. These natives, called gauchos, are emerging as the first settlers characteristics of Spanish-speaking colonial pampa. Unlike their congneres of northern and central Argentina today, although similar robe, adopt extremely nmadas customs, and become inseparable from his horse, who managed to master, coming to refuse to perform almost any work that does not include his mount. These characters are a nuisance when convertirn state power and landlords begin to outline a pas with competitive prices at producciny exporter. His way of being and acting is not consistent with the liberal capitalist thinking, and are persecuted since the mid-nineteenth century to almost nothing, except as an image mythologized in literary and musical folklore of the region. The mule, as well as its producciny cra, more important were the engine of development and establishment of the first wealth of the Pampas near Buenos Aires, and began the takeoff of Regina in Livestock to, the Economic activity that lasts until today, no longer with mules, but quality cattle for consumption. Article copyright Orlando Ampuero. Contact the author of this Article for permission and express authorization to use or publish their content in whole or in part. . . .
