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The New Caledonian "Broussarde*" culture is meeting in a fair every year in August. It attracts around 25,000 visitors every year, making it the biggest event in New Caledonia. its first edition in 1877, the Bourail Fair, has become a veritable institution in southern New Caledonia. It includes the famous rodeo, as well as agricultural competitions, dog shows, bull dogging, lumberjacking, shearing demonstrations, western equestrian games and dressage, motocross, culinary and musical events, traditional shows and much more... The Bourail Fair celebrates the region's produce, livestock farmers, region's cultural, craft and agricultural European heritage. These men and women of the western and northern plains on the main island proudly cultivate a unique identity, the fruit of a turbulent history and multiple influences. Hunting and fishing traditions, cattle rearing, agricultural production, a culture imbued with the codes of the American and Australian Far West. * Descendants of the first Europeans who live outside the main city of Noumea on the main island of New-Caledonia. they are called as well the "Caledoche".