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Argentina Marks Día de la Tradición, Honoring José Hernández and the Gaucho Legacy

The observance traces to José Hernández’s 1834 birth, with a 1939 Buenos Aires law followed by a 1975 national extension.

A girl rides a horse in a parade marking "Tradition Day" in San Antonio de Areco, Argentina, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013. This town in Buenos Aires province holds a gaucho festival every year to honor the birth of Argentine writer Jose Hernandez, author of the country's national poem "The Gaucho Martin Fierro," about the Argentine gaucho lifestyle. People from across the country attend the celebration to preserve gaucho traditions. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) san antonio de areco festejo dia de la tradicion celebracion de preservar las tradiciones gauchas costumbres tradiciones
El 10 de noviembre se celebra el Día de la Tradición en la Argentina (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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Overview

  • National and regional outlets published commemorative pieces on November 10 reflecting on Hernández’s influence and gaucho culture.
  • Celebrations feature mounted parades, folkloric peñas, dances and food fairs with staples such as asado, empanadas, locro and pastelitos.
  • The Buenos Aires partido of General San Martín declares a local holiday and hosted the sixth Festival Martín Fierro from November 7 to 10.
  • Martín Fierro (1872) and La vuelta de Martín Fierro (1879) are treated as canonical works that shaped ideals like liberty and honor in the national imagination.
  • Coverage revisits the historical shift from gaucho autonomy to incorporation as rural wage labor, a transformation documented in literature and public memory.