muleteer

A muleteer is an individual who will take care of herding pack animals. This is someone dedicated to moving goods resorting to animal traction.

On Spain, the muleteer is also known as trajinero, muleteer, carter or packer. The muleteers lead or guide a train: that is, a group of beasts of load.

The clothing and utensils or elements used by the muleteers vary according to the region. On South America, for example, the muleteer usually wears a hat, poncho and espadrilles. As for the equipment, it is usual that they have blankets to cover the back of the animals and straps.

Also called arriero or harriero different birds. The dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) refers specifically to a grayish and brown bird that is part of the order of the cuculiform birds and is common in Cuban territory.

The Puerto Rican muleteer, meanwhile, is a species also known as Puerto Rican lizard cuckoo, endemic to Puerto Rico. The jamaican muleteer or jamaican lizard cuckoo, for its part, is endemic to Jamaica.

There are passerine birds, on the other hand, that receive the Name of muleteer. That is the case of black-billed muleteer and from little muleteer from Antioquia.

Muleteers of Antioquia, lastly, it is the name of a basketball club (basketball) from Colombia. Based in Medellin, this team competes in the Professional Basketball League and he knew how to count on his staff with figures like the Colombian Stalin Ortiz and the Venezuelan Heissler guillent.