Thousands of Valencia County residents gathered Saturday to celebrate Matanza, an annual pig slaughtering event in the state.Organizers said the event, dubbed as the world's largest Matanza, was ...

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Village of Los Ranchos is preparing for its 3rd Annual Los Ranchos Matanza. The Matanza will be February 24, from 1 – 5 p.m. at the Agri-Nature Center in Los Ranchos.

It’s 4:30 in the morning, and Anthony Guardian has a problem: His cooking oil is frozen. He’s getting ready for the 19th edition of the World’s Largest Matanza, an annual fiesta in the small city of ...

Women wash pig's intestines in the local river near the village of Linares, Spain. After the matanza, or pig slaughter, every part of the animal is used, nose to tail. Here, the women are cleaning the ...

Pig farmer Armando Escaño stands with his Iberian pigs on his farm on western Spain's dehesa. Escaño raises pigs for jamón ibérico, Spain's most prized ham. In Spain, an age-old way of surviving the ...