BARRANQUILLA

CARNIVAL
ORIGINS
THE
CARNIVAL
TODAY
MARIMONDA
GARABATO
MONOCUCO
CONGO
FOUR DAYS OF
CARNIVAL
THE FIRST DAY
BATALLA DE FLORES
THE SECOND DAY
GRAN PARADA
THE THIRD DAY
FESTIVAL DE ORQUESTAS
THE LAST DAY
MUERTE DE JOSELITO
THANK
BARRANQUILLA CARNIVAL.

ORIGINS

The Barraquilla carnival in one of the most important folkloric and cultural festivals in Colombia.

It is a party that brings together more than two million people, between visitors and locals.

It is not known in what year the first carnival was held, but since colonial times there were different
popular festivals such as carnivals in neighboring Cartagena de Indias.

These celebrations were brought by the Europeans to the New World and mixed with the traditions
of the cabildos, Mandingas and Africans who arrived in Cartagena.

The festivals moved to Barranquilla and were definitively established in the nineteenth century.

THE CARNIVAL TODAY

Nowadays, the Barranquilla Carnival is an event that shows all the cultural and folkloric variety of
the Colombian Caribbean Coast.

We can see dances, music and animal costumes, native and strange, they are cause for laughter and
fright; African blacks; big heads; mad; dolls; Superheros; Mythological beings and much more.

Some of the most traditional costumes of the Barranquilla carnival are the Marimonda, the
Garabato, the Congo and the Monocuco.

FOUR DAYS OF CARNIVAL

The celebration begins on Carnival Saturday with the Battle of the Flowers, the first of the four days
of celebration, the most important and the most anticipated. It is a great parade of floats, led by the
Carnival Queen, followed by folk groups, costumes, cumbiambas and comparsas.

The second day of carnival is the Great Parade. It is a parade of traditional folk groups, cumbiambas
and comparsas.

On the third day of the carnival, there are two events, the Grand Fantasy Parade and the Orchestra
Festival.

The fourth and last day is Joselito's funeral, which symbolizes the end of the carnival.

It is said then that the character "dies" the last day tired and hungover to "resurrect" again the
following year at the next carnival.

AWARDS

Due to its variety and cultural richness, the Barranquilla Carnival has obtained two important
awards: "Cultural Heritage of the Nation" and "Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of
Humanity", awarded by UNESCO in Paris on November two thousand three .