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Place: Pasto, Nariño

Región: Pacific

Date: January 2 – 7, every year

Duration: 6 days.

Blacks and Whites' Carnival (Spanish:

Carnaval de Negros y Blancos), is the largest

and most important celebration in

southern Colombia, its geographicalindication belongs to the city of Pasto (The

Surprise City ). It's celebrated from 2 to 7

January of each year and attracts a

considerable number of Colombian and

foreign tourists.

In 30 September 2009, this Carnival was

proclaimed by UNESCO, as one of

the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible

Heritage of Humanity.



•Place: Cartagena, Bolívar

•Region: Caribbean

•Date: 29.01 - 01.02 every year

•Duration: 4 days.

The Hay Festival in Cartagena

Every year during the month of January, the Walled City becomes a first class stage that brings

together the greatest exponents in the fields of literature, film-making, journalism, music, and art.

The Hay Festival is an encounter with culture, literature, and the love of words. In the course of

the four days of this large cultural and literary movement offered by Cartagena, writers, artists,

journalists, poets, musicians, and creators from Colombia, the United States, Canada, Latin

American countries, and even farther places like Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and India,Lebanon, and Senegal get meet directly with the public.



•Place: Barranquilla, Atlántico•Region: Caribbean

•Date: March 1 - 4, every year

•Duration: 4 days

The Barranquilla Carnival

The Carnival ...of Barranquilla ... is the great stage where the Caribbean way of being is

expressed by a gestural, graphic, verbal, and musical language; and dance, color, and costumes.

The Barranquilla Carnival

It is the best example of a triple cultural fusion (European, African, and Indian) in which theCatholic festivities brought by the Spaniards from the Old World blended with aboriginal

ceremonies and the musical heritage of African slaves to become a spectacular folk festivity.



•Place: Popayán, Cauca

•Region: Pacific

•Date: April 13 - 19, every year

(varies according to Christian calendar)

•Duration: 8 days

Holy Week in Popayán

Holy Week celebrations are very similar to the ones in Sevilla and Valladolid in Spain, and date back

to colonial times. The main events are the famous processions. This tradition, brought directly from

the Iberian Peninsula, was transmitted to the inhabitants of this Colombian region by the

conquistadors who brought with them to America their Catholic rites and beliefs and implemented

these cultural expressions in the occupied lands.



•Place: Medellín, Antioquia

•Region: Andes•Date: August 1 - 10, every year

•Duration: 10 days

The Medellín Flower Fair

In August, when Medellín – known as the “city of eternal spring” – blooms in all its splendor and

balconies, terraces, gardens, and billboards get flooded with flowers, it is the beginning of the

famous fair.

This feast of flowers takes place in early August and lasts ten days. It offers visitors and residents

over 140 cultural, traditional, and modern events, the following among them: a horse fair, anorchestra festival, the national trova festival (singers in duels of improvised verses), an old and

classic cars parade, a dog walk, musical and cultural platforms, the festival of remembrance and

folk songs, a contest of talented women, the chiva carnival (a chiva is the typical open-sided bus

built on a truck chassis), and the national championship of noise on wheels.

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