The Criollo Mexicano is a Mexican breed or group of breeds of Criollo cattle – that is, cattle that derive principally from the Iberian cattle brought to the Americas by the Conquistadores from the time of the Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1493.
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History
editIberian cattle were brought to the Americas by the Conquistadores, and were introduced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to various parts of what is now Mexico.[3]: 243 Cattle were first brought into Mexico from the islands of the Caribbean in 1521[4]: e1399 and gradually spread throughout the territory of the country. They were in the area of Mexico City by about 1535, and by 1565 had spread as far as the Pacific coast of Nayarit.[3]: 243 Within a hundred years or so they had reached the deserts of Chihuahua and Sonora, including Baja California.[3]: 243
A breed society, the Asociación de Criadores de Ganado Criollo Mexicano, was formed in 1995.[3]: 243
References
edit- ^ Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007).List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
- ^ Breed data sheet: Criollo Mexicano / Mexico (Cattle). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed February 2022.
- ^ a b c d Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 9781780647944.
- ^ Emily Jane McTavish, Jared E. Decker, Robert D. Schnabel, Jeremy F. Taylor, David M. Hillis (2013). New World cattle show ancestry from multiple independent domestication events. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (15): E1398–E1406. doi:10.1073/pnas.1303367110.