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XXIV Equine Fair – La Culata The La Culata Equine Association was founded in 2002 with the desire and enthusiasm of its members to recover the figure of the donkey on the island of Gran Canaria, forgotten in recent years due to the progressive loss of agriculture on the island and the advance of means of transport and agricultural machinery. Read more about the association One of the actions carried out by this association is the traditional Equine Fair held every year in the La Culata neighbourhood in Tejeda, with the collaboration of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria and the Tejeda Town Hall. We invite all people who may be interested in participating. Although there is no census of the island's donkey herd, there is one piece of information that Alba can use as a reference to know how the species is recovering, and that is that since they started the Recovery Centre, about 9 or 10 donkeys have been born each year, so if you do the math in this quarter of a century, you can already talk about 280. Thanks to this work, which has included the first artificial insemination in the history of the Canary Islands, it can now be said that these direct descendants of the zebra, with a large head, short body, and short hair, are beginning to be seen more in the countryside.