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CARNAVAL in Spanish-Speaking Countries
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In Spain, there is a festival called Cadiz Carnival They play and perform a lot of music. Right here, there is a official contest that is held at the Gran Teatro Falla. They spend the whole year practicing for this contest, also the rounds start a month before the festival.
In Antroxu, Spain, the festival highlight of Carnaval is the parade. People dressed in costumes take over the street. They usually play music too. “Las Sardaxians” are the Ambassadors for the festivities in Gijon. They are the sardine mascots.
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Celebrated in the southern spanish village of Tolox, Powder Day is a ancient celebration. People crowd the streets and throw flour and talcum powder at each other. This is also a popular day for young men to propose. The tradition is likely to have Chritian or Moorish roots.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival is a carnival in the islands surrounding spain. In this carnival they have dragqueen competitions where they try to last to the last round and someone gets eliminated each round. #drgqueen
In Puerto Rico they make vejigantes. Here we celebrate Carnaval Ponceño for one full week before ash wednesday.In the picture above there are colorful paper mache masks. These characters that the masks are based off of are to dance through the streets and blow there party horns at the people.
The holiday is celebrated with vibrant colors, costumes, and masks. The season launches with with an indoor carnival gala in Santiago. The Dominican carnival is the most vibrant celebration in Dominican culture.
Carnival in Santiago de Cuba is held during the end of July. It is believed that it evolved from the summer festival Mamarrachos. Dancers would crowd the streets, and travel down the road. People in the crowd would eat traditional foods, such as empanadas.
Carnival in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, runs from February 20-25, 2020 and has a theme of “We are America - Pasion, Hope, and Joy” Carnival runs from a Thursday to Tuesday. This Tuesday is significant in the Catholic religion because it is the last day of feasting before Lent begins on the Wednesday.
In Veracruz, Mexico, carnival is celebrated in a way unusual to us but not as much to them. Most people dress up in decorative costumes and stand on top a float dancing. The people of Veracruz, Mexico celebrate with parades, colorful outfits along with lots of food. The food consists of traditional Mexican style food such as Tacos.
In Guatemala, people celebrate Shrove Tuesday, otherwise known as Mardi Gras, by cracking brightly-colored eggs filled with confetti on peoples heads. They are called Cascarones. Its cracked over heads of friends, relatives, and strangers.Itś a celebration of friendship, good fortune, and fun. #Cascarones
What is the Barranquilla Carnival? It’s the second biggest carnival in Latin American countries. Barranquilla is hosted in Columbia. It’s a fusion of cultures, music, dance and traditions. This carnival is celebrated four day each year prior to Lent. #BARRANQUILLA #carnival
Carnival In Ecuador is a very fun and enjoyable time for everyone. One thing you might see them doing at the parades is dumping and throwing water and party foam at each other. people may also dump water out of there windows!
Lima Peru has many parades during Carnival. They also have many crazy parties. A person is in charge of each carnival party and they will plant a tree that is decorated with presents and ornaments, similar to a Christmas tree, but with prizes on it.
Carnival in Montevideo Uruguay is different than other carnival celebrations. First, they do not follow a Christian calander of carnival finishing when lent begins, it runs ffrom early january to late march. Also, carnival in South America is very rich. It brings together many diverse cultures, and is one of the most authentic carnivals in the world having not been commercialized or commodified.
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El Callao Carnival attracts thousands of people from all over the world per year because of its unique celebrations. Parades, parties, excess drinking, calypso music, and live music concerts are a few ways of celebrating it in this area. A creative Carnival character commonly seen, called the medio-pintos, are painted in black and go around collecting donations. People who donate, are painted in charcoal. #fiesta
El Callao Carnival, Venezuela
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Gualeguaychú Carnival is the longest carnival in the world held in Argentina! It is celebrated for two whole months! They celebrate it by having a huge parades and dances. They also love to dress up extravagantly with lots of feathers and jewels. #allout #parade #weloveourcountry