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National Horse Festival in Bragado
Bragado's horse festival draws on a specific 18th-century legend — a wild, untamable stallion that gave the town its name — and centers on equestrian competition each October. Jineteada riding, horse parades, and folkloric performances fill the program at an event formally established in 1972.
Bragado takes its name, and its horse festival's founding myth, from a single 18th-century legend: a wild, reddish-coated stallion marked with a white patch — a 'braga' — on its belly, that grazed near the lagoon the town would later be built beside.