The Jaca Navarra (Basque: Nafarroako zaldiko), or Navarrese Horse, is a Spanish breed of small horse from the autonomous communityofNavarre in the north-eastern part of the country. In 2013 it was listed in the Catálogo Oficial de Razas de Ganado de España in the group of autochthonous breeds in danger of extinction.[4] The total population of the Jaca Navarra has been variously estimated at 350 (in 1999),[5] 250 (in 2000),[6] and 240 and decreasing (in 1997).[7]: 739 In April 2011 the total population was reported to be 899, all of which were in Navarre.[8] In 2000, and again in 2007, it was listed by the FAO as endangered.[7]: 739 [1]: 109
Abreeders' association, the Asociación de Criadores de Ganado Equino Jaca Navarra, was formed in 1999,[5] and a stud-book opened in 2001.[9] The conservation and reference herd kept in semi-feral conditions at the Sabaiza estate contains all but a few examples of the breed.[5]
InSpanish, this breed is also known as the Poney Navarro, Caballo Navarro, Caballo Vasco-navarro, Caballito de Andía, Caballito de las AméscoasorCaballito de la Barranca,[5] and was in the past also known as Jaca de Montaña, Raza de PamplonaorRaza Pamplonica.[9]
The word jaca has an unusual history, from Old Spanishhaca, itself from Old Frenchhaque, which in turn is ultimately derived from the English place-name Hackney, a place famous for its horses.[10]
^Miguel Fernández Rodríguez, Mariano Gómez Fernández, Juan Vicente Delgado Bermejo, Silvia Adán Belmonte, Miguel Jiménez Cabras (editors) (2009). Guía de campo de las razas autóctonas españolas (in Spanish). Madrid: Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino. ISBN9788449109461.
Alberto Pérez de Muniáin Ortigosa, Martín Villanueva Vergara, Satur Napal Lecumberri (2007). Nuestros caballos: la Jaca Navarra y el Burguete (in Spanish). Pamplona: Editorial Evidencia Médica. ISBN9788493486051.
Horse breeds thought to originate wholly or partly within Portugal and Spain. Some have complex or obscure histories, so inclusion here does not necessarily imply that a breed is predominantly or exclusively Iberian.
