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Carnival

Colombia is famous for having 365 carnivals or festivals, one for each day of the year. Is there anywhere with a defintive (or at least mostly comprehensive) list?

And if not, then THIS can be the place to make such a list, surely between us all we can start to build it up.

I will start us off with a few:

Bogota Birthday (6th August): Celebrating the founding of the city of Santafe de Bogota. I was there for the 465th in 2003, there was a big festival in Parque de Bolivar with live music and fireworks. Last year I was in Bogota shopping and the supermarkets were giving out free slices of birthday cake.

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (15th August): I don't know how it is celebrated across the country but in my village there is a procession carrying a statue of Mary through the village and then up into the mountains to the boundary of the village limits, followed by a Mass held right there in the roadside.

By Cockney Colombian on Apr 28, 2007, 16:26 in Friendly Talkzone.

rca_rodrigo says on Apr 28, 2007, 17:22:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivales_en_Colombia the complete list

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Monpirri says on Apr 28, 2007, 21:03:

Here's one Carnival! Checo Acosta: Che Mapale - Carnavalero

Viva Colombia Papa!!!

Annette Taddeo for US Congress 2008

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Lisa Zee says on Apr 28, 2007, 21:45:

Gracias Monpi I like quiet and peace, but when I see this video I want to go to Colombia today, now, and dance and yell and get crazy!!! LOL
Thank you Monpi.

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Mononoke28 says on Apr 28, 2007, 22:12:

Here you go... ... I'm pretty sure there are a few that are missing but it should give you an idea.

Diana

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Monpirri says on Apr 28, 2007, 23:12:

Lisa Zee I'm glad you are back from your vacation.
Keep in tuned and do not go to sleep anymore because you loose the rhythm.

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Monpirri says on Apr 28, 2007, 23:16:

Mononoke28 We are hiring more friends are you interested?

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billyb says on Apr 28, 2007, 23:32:

Lisa, if you like peace and quiet... when you go to Colombia, you need to avoid Cali. For me, when I drive in from the airport and approach Cali's outskirts and start hearing salsa blasting from every business establishment, regardless of what they sell, and all the cars honking and the general chaos, not to mention the sweet smell of the sugar fields mixed in with smoke of the burning detriutus of the harvested sugar fields, then I know I'm home.

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Robert Jorge says on Apr 29, 2007, 00:44:

Hopefully Kat1 will be able to give more details. There is a huge festivo in Villavicencio around October 10th or so. I have no idea what the exact dates are or what it is for, but the whole city goes crazy. People come down from Bogota, the main streets are closed to traffic, and every horse that lives within 200 km is in Villavo with a drunken Llanero riding. Then, there are cars and trucks filled with people throwing eggs, flour, and water on each other and at the spectators on the sidewalks. I just got with my sources ... the name might be "festival mundial del coleo". A popular sport for this festival is similar to tackling cattle, but the the person rides a horse high speed, and grabs onto a running steer's tail and drags it down by the tail. I would wager the hospitals have good business that week. I witnessed a truck filled with 15 kids, probably 16 years old on average, almost run over several military guys walking across calle 15 at the wrong time. They dove to avoid the truck, brushed themselves off, laughed, and acted like nothing had happened.

--"I believe in making the world safe for our children. But not for our children's children, because I don't think that children should be having sex." - Jack Handy

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billyb says on Apr 29, 2007, 00:46:

RJ, those soldiers are genuine colombian... don't sweat the small stuff, no harm no foul.

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goin_south says on Apr 29, 2007, 00:49:

do not go to sleep anymore because you loose the rhythm

Are you kiddin, monpirri?
Start the music and it's like letting go of the wind-up, on the back of any colombiana! They can't be still,.... I love those girls.

When I think back to times in Colombia, it was funny tonight, watching the white girls dance at the Festival International!

Ciao! Gustav.

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billyb says on Apr 29, 2007, 01:10:

Do you mean Internationale?? ..

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Monpirri says on Apr 29, 2007, 05:42:

El feliz "Las Monas del Mundial" There is a really funny TV program in Colombia, Tambien Caeras
Take a look a las "Monas," the blonde Colombian girls in action.
Tambien Caeras - Jun10 - Las Monas

The guys always claimed they did not know "las monas" in any rumba (party).

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Monpirri says on Apr 29, 2007, 05:52:

The show was aired Tambien Caeras was aired during the world cup or el "Mundial"
Billyb, did you mean, festival internacional?

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Lisa Zee says on Apr 29, 2007, 17:51:

Monpi Eso esta muy charro jajajajaja! Gracias de nuevo!

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Monpirri says on Apr 29, 2007, 18:09:

Yo me rei con ganas Me rei con ganas cuando vi el programa en la TV! Pobre hombres todos sorprendidos y muy asustados!
Cual rumba? Decian ellos.

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Lisa Zee says on Apr 29, 2007, 18:38:

Candid Camara En Espanol.

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Monpirri says on Apr 29, 2007, 18:44:

Yeap Some like that but better.

Annette Taddeo for US Congress 2008

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goin_south says on Apr 29, 2007, 20:20:

http://www.festivalinternational.com/site.php is what I meant; pretty cool front page tonight.
Humbled, that it is in my home town, but this festival grows and gets better year by year. An International crowd is gathering.

Was funny, though. Last night,... The guys playing those Bolivian wind flutes and the street corner, claimed to be from Arizona.

Ciao! Gustav.

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Cockney Colombian says on May 5, 2007, 06:40:

Thanks for the link Rodrigo, very useful, but I was thinking of making this thread a little more descriptive than just a try list, such as the videos that have been posted.

Colombia is such a big country and so different region to region that I'm sure all the different carnivals and festivals have their own character.

I remember when I was a kid (c. 1992), a carnival in the village, I think it was Columbus Day, and there were various floats representing the history of Colombia and the Americas, with lots of different costumes.

I think embedded photos in this message board is frowned upon right? So link instead:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v93/cackle_jr/UticaCarnival.jpg

The following was in Plaze de Bolivar 2003. I didn't find out what it was for, but then that's what's so great about Colombia, lets have a party because we feel like!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v93/cackle_jr/STREETPARTY.jpg

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Cockney Colombian says on May 5, 2007, 06:40:

- double click. sorry

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Cockney Colombian says on May 5, 2007, 06:59:

I rather suspect they were supposed to represent African slaves? Not very PC but as I said this was the early 90s (and indeed if that is the reason, I doubt it was intended offensively)

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Cockney Colombian says on May 23, 2007, 07:16:

I tried tinypic but it just says "Please wait" once you've chosen the file to upload and stays like that for ages

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microllo says on May 23, 2007, 23:24:

were having a carnival were having a big carnaval in san francisco ca this weekend and theres gonna be colombian groups in it i posted something about it on pbh heres a video of one of the groups at last years carnaval

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microllo says on May 23, 2007, 23:31:

heres 2 more video about our carnaval

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