El ganado bovino ibérico en las américas: 500 años después (The iberic cattle in the americas: 500 years later)

Resumen
El bovino criollo americano desciende directamente de los animales que llegaron en el segundo viaje de Colón en 1493. Estos animales, así como posteriores envíos, llegaron a la isla denominada La Española, hoy asiento de la República Dominicana y Haití. Las similitudes entre las razas criollas de Brasil y de Hispanoamérica pueden explicarse por la proximidad geográfica de sus orígenes. Con el objetivo de definir el ganado criollo se describen sus características morfológicas y de comportamiento en Latinoamérica.
Abstract
In 1493, when Christopher Columbus landed in America for the second time, he brought the first cattle to the New World. From that date, the spaniards began to spread these cattle throughout the american continent. All were animals of andalusian origin that had come from the Canary Islands of the north-west coast of Africa, a spanish possession since 1479. From the Caribbean, these cattle spread to the mainland
Central and South America with exception of Brazil, where the Portuguese began exporting their own cattle in 1534. Several types of Criollo cattle evolved through natural selection. Distinct populations, sometimes described as breeds developed in particular regions of the Americas, according to coat colour or performance, and they are described in the text.