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The forcão, instrument used in Capeas the Terras de Riba-Côa to handle the bull is a device triangular, made ??of heavy oak logs, cut to the effect, ending in fork which fits the front bar, typically pine wood to be lighter timber which extends beyond the angles about two meters.

The sidebars are firmly supported on a central beam, which also ends in fork, the other long end, exceeding the apex of about 60 or 70 cm extension to what you might call the command zone because that's where the two act rabejadores, which are responsible for its management.

Its function is therefore drive, maneuver the forcão in order to keep the bull under the control, tire him and prepare him to be grabbed in time, a goal that is not always achieved.