Barranquilla's carnival is the second most important festival of the world and the most important of Colombia for its great cultural composition.besides that is a major cultural demonstrations Colombia and trends for everything world, the Carnival of Barranquilla is the entry pirncipal tourist city of Barranquilla and Colombia,
The carnival features parades and demonstrations of their dances and costumes such as the Congo, the bull, the tiger, the marimonda, as is the mapale dance, cumbia and more.
Barranquilla's Carnaval
Barranquilla's Carnaval (Spanish: Carnaval de Barranquilla) is a carnival with traditions that
date back to the 19th century. It takes place for four days preceding Ash Wednesday. During the carnival the city of Barranquilla's normal activities are paralyzed because the city gets busy with street dances, musical and masquerade parades. Barranquilla's Carnival is reputed for being second in size to Rio's. The Barranquilla Carnival includes dances like the Spanish paloteo, African congo and indigenous mico y micas. Many styles of Colombian music are also performed, most prominently cumbia, and instruments include drums and wind ensembles. The Carnival of Barranquilla was proclaimed by UNESCO, in November 2003, as one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, during Olga Lucia Rodriquez carnival queen year.
different types of dances
The Carnaval of Barranquilla is multicultural, diverse, and rich in different cultural expressions. Its dancing and dancing expressions, just like its music, is gathered from every city of the Caribbean part of Colombia. The Carnaval's diversity can be categorized in seven different blocks: Traditional dances or folkloric dances; dances relation or manifestation dances; special dances or choreographic dances; Comparsas (a form of live music), with which the choreography of mmm dances and creativity of dances are expressed; Comedies, which are traditional and folkloric popular theater, where oral expression is its primary characteristic; Litany, which are traditional groups that sing along a choir; and last but not least the customs. These can be individual, or collectives, structural, and dramatic.
costumes
The list is almost endless costume of the imagination of Barranquilla for Carnival. One of the most representative costumes marimonda is the unique set of the wit Barranquilla, because the rest are of European or African. Was born when a Barranquilla, having no money to dress, came dressed with a bag, tie and trousers old, put upside down and, as a mask, a sack of flour which opened three holes, to mock the rest fellow citizens. It also is said to be a mockery of corrupt state officials. The costume actually consists of trousers, long sleeve shirt, tie, sweater or vest, and a mask made with a kind of cloth bag with three holes, lined with fabric tubes filled with a long nose, like a member virile, and ears like those of elephants, with colored shapes.This costume should always be accompanied by a whistle, rubber, known as "pea pea", which serves to express intemperate sound waste and the joy that is disguised as marimonda. Well known is the saying Barranquilla: "It is nothing but the disguise of marimonda the jumps you have to give." Some of the characters and traditional costumes and are representative of the Barranquilla Carnival: 7
Carnival Queen
King Momo
Popular Queen
Mary Moñitos
La Loca
The Doodle Dance
Litanies groups
The cumbiambas
Gay Queen
The bold Puloy
Gorilla suit.
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The African
Dracula
Marimonda
El Torito
The Congo
The monocuco
The Cabezones
The Muñeconas
El Tigrillo
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