Retuertas

Retuertas
Conservation status
  • FAO (2007): not listed: 108 
  • DAD-IS (2022): unknown
Other names
  • Caballo de las Retuertas
  • Caballo de las Retuertas de Doñana
Country of originSpain
Distribution
Notes
feral population

The Retuertas or Caballo de las Retuertas is a Spanish breed of horse indigenous to Andalusia.: 485 : 456  It is found only in the Doñana National Park in the provinces of Huelva and Sevilla, with a conservation herd in the Campanarios de Azaba Biological Reserve in Espeja (Salamanca Province) a part of which is the research reserve of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, the Spanish National Research Council.

In 2016 it was added to the list of domestic animal breeds with national government recognition.

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