Pachón Navarro

The Pachón Navarro[a] is a Spanish breed of hunting dog from the autonomous community of Navarre, in northern Spain.

[2][3] The Pachón is believed to be among the oldest pointer dogs of the Iberian peninsula, with iconographic evidence going back to the Middle Ages.

[4]: 560 The Pachón was among the breeds recognised by the Real Sociedad Canina at its foundation in 1911, but by the 1970s was believed to be extinct.

[5] A breed society, the Asociación Nacional Pro Recuperación del Pachón Navarro, was established in Laserna [es] in Álava in 2001, followed by the Círculo de Cazadores y Criadores de Pachón Navarro in Pamplona in 2002.

[4]: 561 A few examples display an unusual characteristic, a split or bifid nose,[1] a trait shared with the Turkish Tarsus çatalburun and occasionally seen in South American dogs.

Pachón navarro (c. 1890)