introduction
Barranquilla's carnival is a festival that occurs every year in this city was declared a UNESCO cultural heritage of humanity.

 

 

 

 

CARNAVAL DE BARRANQUILLA

 firm Carnival starts on Saturday of Carnival with the Battle of Flowers, his central and most important act. It is a great parade of floats, head of the Queen of Carnival, followed by folk groups and bands cumbiambas first organized in 1903 by General Heriberto Arturo Vengoechea to celebrate the end of the War of the Thousand Days. Since 1991 takes place on the Via 40, after having performed for years on the Avenue Olaya Herrera (race 46), alleys HQ (race 44) and July 20 (race 43) and on the promenade of Bolivar.In parallel, other acts carried out as 17 street parade or procession of King Momo and the Battle of Flowers of Remembrance at the Alley headquarters (race 44).Carnival Sunday, also on Via 40, stages the Great Parade of Tradition, parade established in 1967, where only are traditional folk groups, cumbia and extras. In the parade does not parade floats.Carnival Monday marks the Festival Orchestra (established 1969), 5 from the early afternoon until early Tuesday. The Festival involved in various musical categories orchestras and groups that are presented in the many dances of the carnival. Winners in each category receive the coveted Golden Congo same day is celebrated on the Via 40 the Fantasy Parade.
By way of closing, the Mardi Gras takes place Joselito Carnaval's funeral, which symbolizes the end of the festivities. On this day in many parts of the city are made humorous "burial" of Joselito, a character who symbolizes the joy of the holidays, who had "resurrected" the Saturday of carnival and "die" on the last day tired and "enguayabado" for "resurrect" the following year in the next carnival. At night is celebrated in the neighborhood below, or Peace Square encounter a funny litany with which, in simple lines and its characteristic tone, vented, criticize and comment on current affairs, national and local international. The next day, Ash Wednesday begins Lent, a period of religious devotion and abstinence preceding the week Santa.6 S2 S2 rafael

Carnaval de Barranquilla 2011 Batalla de Flores

roups and folk dances

See Appendix: List of groups, dance and music groups BarranquillaCarnival


Doodle Dance.
The dance is a vital component of the Barranquilla Carnival, as well as folk music, litanies and costumes. The Carnival of Barranquilla can enjoyhappier air coastal folklore , such as cumbia, puya, Jala, chandé [2], thejoint, bullerengue, bird, mapalé the merecumbé, guaracha, rhythms fromAfrica or the musical expression of the Caribbean Sea basin, as salsa andmerengue, and other rhythms like vallenato, reggaeton and tropical. Cumbiais the main rhythm of Carnival, especially in the parades as the Battle ofFlowers and The Grand Parade, where the cumbia or large groups of couples dance, the man wooing the woman, and woman flirting with it. In addition to the cumbia, highlights the mapalé, rhythm based on the movements of fish and where women and men move by contracting theabdomen, also various traditional dances daily gain greater ground in one ofthe carnivals world.