carnaval's activities

During this time, Barranquilla and a number of outsiders who come to the city abandon the collective enjoyment, to drink and dance. The festivities, which are chaired by the Carnival Queen and King Momo, are lit from the Pre-carnival, which starts "officially" with the whistle announcing the arrival of the new year. Pre-carnival events begin with the reading of the proclamation, continue with the storming of the city, the Coronation of the Queen, the Children's Carnival, the Gay Parade, and the most important celebration of the Pre-carnival, The Guacherna, great night parade a Friday before the Saturday of Carnival, established in 1974 through the initiative of composer Esthercita Forero.


Cumbiamba La Pollera Color.
Carnival begins on the Saturday of Carnival firm 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.