Casa Berrea: Tornajos

We stumbled upon a rare find today: wooden tornajos (livestock watering troughs) from many years ago, now seen only in remote corners of the mountains. Curiously, these were sometimes topped with a structure made from sticks in the form of trestles whose function was to prevent vultures from bathing in them to wash and groom their feathers, thus dirtying the water where later the sheep would come to drink!

Today, tornajos (also called abrevaderos) are most often made of concrete (though old bathtubs sometimes substitute), and are often linked in long, narrow chains of seven or more troughs. No matter what they are made of, we think it is a real treat to come upon these signs of rural life.

Today’s Wikiloc track:
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