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Juego del garrote

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ5351469 ↗
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Juego del garrote (Venezuelan traditional, woodstick fencing) or juego de garrote larense ('Venezuela Stick fighting') is a Venezuelan martial art that involves machete, stick-fighting, and knife fencing. It is most associated with the Venezuelan state of Lara. However, Garrote is still practiced in Coro state, Guarico and Miranda states, Michael J. Ryan, Research notes, 2013.

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