Characteristic character of the plains of South America, of skills for riding and dedicated to manual work and cattle raising, mestizo of origin of a mixture between Indian and Spanish, they become cowboys hired at the service of the exploitation of the capitalism. The expression of the word itself is not known its exact origin, in the seventeenth century it was called as vagabond or the Creoles of the lands, and in a more derogatory way as loose snot.
The culture of these people is varied, they stand out in their peculiar lifestyle and way of speaking, they are the peasants of the time meeting from Spain and Portugal, then spreading to Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, dedicated to rural work, experts in leather and in the art of music and interpretation with the guitar and are of a family nature. The clothing is unique and characteristic of these men who identified them as the cowboy of the plains, they were said to be vagabonds because of their bad dress, wearing several pieces on top starting from the hator chapéu, lenco or kind of handkerchief around the neck, shirt with sleeves folded up to the elbows, a vest or ponytail, a cardigan and baggy pants, a shoulder bag or purse, which in some cases used a small waist called guaica, a pulled, which is a kind of skirt that covered the trousers, and one or two enzyme ponchos, which is a kind of robe made of wool that covered all that clothing and protected them from the cold weather and inclement sun.
Despite being considered peasants, they are very rich in their culture, their music on guitar and accompanying them with dances which make these an art when dancing with their horses, demonstrating the skill and mastery in taming them. The food is varied depending on where they come from, the empanadas, the stews and meat roasts since they are specialists in cooking all kinds of animals that marry, but for no reason do they eat domestic animals such as their own horses or wild horses, dogs or cats. They are to drink mate, cane wine or in special things gin.
