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For a number of years I have been travelling around Chile, documenting rural life and learning about my country\u2019s many traditional cultures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This April, I went to Lonquimay in Araucan\u00eda, just north of my home in Puc\u00f3n, to photograph the annual Fiesta del Pi\u00f1\u00f3n. This festival celebrates the harvest of the pehuen (or pi\u00f1\u00f3n in Spanish), a pine nut collected from araucan\u00eda trees that has long been central to the diet of the indigenous Mapuche people who live here, the Pehuenche.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the pehuen is the reason for the festival, I attended to photograph the jineteada, a type of rodeo where riders compete to ride an untamed horse for as long as possible. It\u2019s a meeting place for riders from across the region, whether they\u2019re Pehuenche, gauchos or just campesinos (country people), and is a major demonstration of the centrality of horse culture to this part of Chile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are my photos of the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Left to right: The distinctive hats of the region, with a campesino wearing his flat huaso, a gaucho in his boina beret, and Pewenche on the fence in a chupalla straw hat.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A local gaucho watches the action<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A campesino rider readies himself to enter the arena<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Fiesta del Pi\u00f1\u00f3n arena, with a backdrop of asado de chivo smoke (local barebecued goat)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A gaucho outside the fiesta arena<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A local Pehuenche man watches the action\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A female rider checks her mount<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Riders get a horse ready for the jineatada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Securing the horse for its rider
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A jineatada rider let loose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Getting the measure of the horse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Riding to success<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As the dust settled on this jineatada, I was reminded how it remains remains an important part of Chilean life wherever there are horses. Events like this one in Lonquimay keep inspiring me to document the country’s rural traditions, and explore new corners of the country \u2013 as well as coming back next year to capture the peheun harvest in full. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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