Korrika 2009 in San Francisco

The Korrika ("race") is an exhibition race held every two years in the Basque Country to celebrate and support the Basque language. In order to honor this event and to promote the Basque language, the San Francisco Basque Cultural Center held a Korrika in our very own city of San Francisco, Chrissy Fields.

The race is organised by the AEK, the association for education in Basque, and usually it is scheduled to last two weeks. The first Korrika was held in 1980, and each one follows a different course, though they always try to cover a large part of Euskal Herria, the historical territories of the Basque Country: Bizkaia, Araba, Gipuzkoa (the "official" version of the Basque Country), Nafarroa (Navarra) and also Lapurdi, Zuberoa and Benafarroa (the French Basque Country).

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