Nordestino (horse)

Nordestino
	Nordestino horse
Country of origin	Brazil
	Equus ferus caballus;

The Nordestino, also known as Crioulo Nordestino, Mourão, Pé Duro Nordestino or Sertanejo do Nordeste,^[1] is a breed of horses native to the Northeast Region of Brazil. The breed is near extinction due to the lack of interest in maintaining it. A stud-book was created and approved in 1987 by the Brazilian government; nevertheless in 2017 the authorization to carry out the genealogical records of the breed was revoked by the Ministry of Agriculture ("Portaria n. 1.537/2017" do MAPA published in Diário Oficial da União, on 26 July 2017, section 1, page 17^[2]) causing the loss of the breed's lines records. It is the first native horse breed of Brazil, and derived from the first horses brought by Portuguese settlers in the sixteenth century. Over time the horses have evolved into a small breed very well-adapted to surviving in the local semi-arid climate of the Northeast Region. Today around 500,000 horses (purebred and mixed) survive in the region pulling horse carts or in cattle work.

^ DOMINGUES, Octavio - O CAVALO SERTANEJO DO NORDESTE, Revista de Agricultura da Escola Nacional de Agronomia, Universidade Rural (Rio de Janeiro). [Online]. Rio de Janeiro: Typographia Commercial, 1853 pg. 53 to 56. Available in WWW:<URL:http://cavalonordestino.blogspot.com/>.
^ Federative Government of Brazil. "PORTARIA Noº 1.531, DE 17 DE JULHO DE 2017". Retrieved December 22, 2020.

[The_backcountry_northeast_horse-1] DOMINGUES, Octavio - O CAVALO SERTANEJO DO NORDESTE, Revista de Agricultura da Escola Nacional de Agronomia, Universidade Rural (Rio de Janeiro). [Online]. Rio de Janeiro: Typographia Commercial, 1853 pg. 53 to 56. Available in WWW:<URL:http://cavalonordestino.blogspot.com/>.

[pesquisa-2] Federative Government of Brazil. "PORTARIA Noº 1.531, DE 17 DE JULHO DE 2017". Retrieved December 22, 2020.

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