Jaca Navarra

Jaca Navarra

Conservation status	FAO (2007): endangered [1] : 109  DAD-IS (2022): at risk [2]
Other names	Basque: Nafarroako zaldiko Poney Navarro Caballo Navarro Caballo Vasco-Navarro Caballito de Andía Caballito de las Améscoas Caballito de la Barranca Jaca de Montaña Raza de Pamplona Raza Pamplonica Navarrese Horse
Country of origin	Spain
Distribution	Navarre
Standard	Asociación de Criadores de Ganado Equino Jaca Navarra
Use	draught meat conservation grazing
Traits
Weight	Male: Average: 475 kg (1,047 lb) [2] Female: Average: 400 kg (880 lb) [2]
Height	Male: Average: 134 cm (53 in) [2] Female: Average: 126 cm (50 in) [2]
Equus ferus caballus

At the market of Ormaiztegi

The Jaca Navarra (Basque : Nafarroako zaldiko), or Navarrese Horse, is a Spanish breed of small horse from the autonomous community of Navarre in the north-eastern part of the country.

History

The origins of the Jaca Navarra are unknown; In 2013 it was listed in the Catálogo Oficial de Razas de Ganado de España in the group of autochthonous breeds in danger of extinction. ^[3] The total population of the Jaca Navarra has been variously estimated at 350 (in 1999), ^[4] 250 (in 2000), ^[5] and 240 and decreasing (in 1997). ^{[6] : 739} In April 2011 the total population was reported to be 899, all of which were in Navarre. ^[7] In 2000, and again in 2007, it was listed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as endangered. ^{[6] : 739  [1] : 109}

A breeders' association, the Asociación de Criadores de Ganado Equino Jaca Navarra, was formed in 1999, ^{[8] : 478  [4]} and a stud-book opened in 2001. ^[9] All but a few examples of the breed are kept in semi-feral conditions in a conservation and reference herd at the Sabaiza estate in Uzquita  [ es ], in the comarca of Tafalla  [ es ]. ^[4]

Names

In Spanish, this breed is also known as the Poney Navarro, Caballo Navarro, Caballo Vasco-navarro, Caballito de Andía, Caballito de las Améscoas or Caballito de la Barranca, ^{[10] : 192  [4]} and was in the past also known as Jaca de Montaña, Raza de Pamplona or Raza Pamplonica. ^[9]

The word jaca has an unusual history, from Old Spanish haca, itself from Old French haque, which in turn is ultimately derived from the English place-name Hackney, a place famous for its horses. ^[11]

Use

The Jaca Navarra may be used as a light draught horse. It is reared for meat, and may be used in conservation grazing. ^{[12] : 489}

References

1. 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.
2. Breed data sheet: Jaca Navarra / Spain (Horse). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed December 2022.
3. Ganaderia: Clasificación de Razas (in Spanish). Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino. Archived 13 February 2013.
4. Raza Jaca Navarra (in Spanish). ITG Ganadero. Archived 13 July 2011.
5. J. Cañon, M.L. Checa, C. Carleos, J.L. Vega-Pla, M. Vallejo, S. Dunner (2000). The Genetic Structure of Spanish Celtic Horse Breeds Inferred from Microsatellite Data. Animal Genetics. 31 (1): 39–48. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2052.2000.00591.x
6. Beate D. Scherf (editor) (2000). World Watch List for Domestic Animal Diversity. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN   9251045119.
7. Ganaderia: Raza equino caballar Jaca Navarra: Datos Censales (in Spanish). Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino. Archived 11 August 2011.
8. Miguel Fernández Rodríguez, Mariano Gómez Fernández, Juan Vicente Delgado Bermejo, Silvia Adán Belmonte, Miguel Jiménez Cabras (editors) (2009). Guía de campo de las razas autóctonas españolas (in Spanish). Madrid: Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino. ISBN   9788449109461.
9. Ganaderia: Raza equino caballar Jaca Navarra (in Spanish). Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino. Archived 11 August 2011.
10. Valerie Porter, Ian Lauder Mason (2002). Mason's World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types, and Varieties (fifth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN   085199430X.
11. Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish). Real Academia Española. Accessed April 2011.
12. 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.

Further reading

• Alberto Pérez de Muniáin Ortigosa, Martín Villanueva Vergara, Satur Napal Lecumberri (2007). Nuestros caballos: la Jaca Navarra y el Burguete (in Spanish). Pamplona: Editorial Evidencia Médica. ISBN   9788493486051.