The Chilean Corralero or Chilean Criollo is the Chilean national breed of Criollo horse. Like all Criollo horses, it descends from horses brought to the Americas from Spain by the Conquistadors.
A huaso is a Chilean countryman and skilled horseman, similar to the American cowboy, the Mexican charro, the gaucho of Argentina, Uruguay and Rio Grande Do Sul, and the Australian stockman. A female
Huaso in a Chilean wheat field, 1940
"The Huaso and the Washerwoman" by Mauricio Rugendas (1835).
Espuelas, or silvered steel spurs, of a Chilean huaso