Intro
The Guatemalan Pony is listed in the DAD-IS as a locally adapted breed, but information about them is sparse. Likely they are a country bred type that comes from criollo or paso blood.
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Guatemala Category
Guatemalan Criollo
Intro
The Criollo is a favorite throughout the South and Central American countries and almost all of them have their own strain of the breed. The Guatemalan Criollo comes from a country of extreme inhospitable climates that aren’t always conducive to horses.
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Criollo Horse
Intro
The term Criollo originally meant animals (or people) of purebred Spanish ancestry who were born in the Americas, but through time it has come to mean breeds native to the Americas.
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