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Published
Friday, February 28,2020
Celebrate Boyero weekBy the A.M. Costa Rica staff Today begins the celebrations of the 37th anniversary of the National Day of the Boyero, which will take place in the district of Escazú, in San José Province, this week from today until Sunday, March 8. The celebration is well-known for the oxcart parade. Among the activities will be, folk music concerts, sales of typical foods, souvenirs and presentation of cultural folk dancers. The traditional parade of boyeros will take place on the last day of the celebration at 9 a.m., beginning in the park in front of the municipal of the capital city Escazú of the canton by the same name. This is a major pageant with teams of oxen pulling more than 100 carts up the grade to San Antonio de Escazú, the spiritual home of the ox cart drivers. There the animals and their handlers are blessed in front of the Catholic church and eating, drinking and dancing breaks out. According to the municipality, a budget of more than $40,514 has been invested to carry out these activities. "From our institution, we make great efforts for the promotion and generation of cultural activities," said Arnoldo Barahona, mayor of Escazú. "The preservation of our traditions is fundamental for the development of the population, maintaining all those customs that have given us our identity as a canton." The municipality invited the entire population to the community of Escazú during the week of celebration of Costa Rican customs and traditions. Since 1997 the national parade of boyeros has been held as a way to honor and remember the origins of Costa Rica. The boyeros is what the ox cart driver is called in Spanish. They were major transportation figures years ago. The Costa Rican boyero and oxcart was declared as an oral and intangible heritage of humanity, by the U.N. Education, Science and Culture Organization in 2005. ------------------------------ Have you seen the boyeros parade in Costa Rica? We would like to know your thoughts on this story. Send your comments to news@amcostarica.com More stories
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