The Tranga are the most well recognized characters of their carnaval. They are single young men from the Bielsa valley, dressed in the skin and horns of a male goat, a checkered shirt, a saya (skirt), wool socks, abarcas (traditional rawhide footwear) and large esquillas (bells) at their waist. Their faces are painted black with soil and oil and speckled with flour. They carve potatoes to look like grotesque teeth and hold the potato in their mouth as they make their way around the town chasing after the women and children.
In their hands they carry a long wooden pole that is called a tranga, from which they get their name. They smack their sticks on the ground to intimidate whoever is before them. The beast is symbolic of fertility.
