1. Name: Daniel Stiven Quintero Henao
Teacher: Miss Martha Rocio Londoño
Subject: English
Grade: 804
Shift: Morning
Year: 2012

3.  It takes place from Saturday through Tuesday
before Ash Wednesday, usually in
February, and sometimes early March. It has a
tradition of more than one hundred years. The
Carnival season begins the second Saturday in
January when the holidays begin public and
verbenas, however, other activities directly
related to the carnival happen during much of
the year.

4.  Thebarranquilla’s carnival is celebrated
in Barranquilla.

5. The barranquilla’s carnival
lasts four days.

7.  More than 1 million people, visitors
and locals annually participate in
the festival.

8.  Carnival is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for
musicians of the Colombian Caribbean, this is how we find
countless recordings alluding to the Carnival of Barranquilla
in diversity of rhythms, from cumbia,
porro, fandango, scribbles, armories,
tamboritos, pujas, cumbiones,
guarachas , walks and salsa music.

9.  The Carnival of Barranquilla birth occurred in the
nineteenth century, and currently involves about
500 folk groups (costumes and floats) and
generates an estimated 40 billion pesos in ingress.

10.  The Carnival of Barranquilla is the folk festival and most
important cultural in Colombia, Barranquilla.
This Carnival is a cultural event in which all varieties
express cultural and folklore of the Caribbean Coast and the
most diverse local cultural events, popular music and dance.
It is the most representative of the city that attracts and
strangers.

11.  Barranquilla's Carnival (Spanish: Carnaval de Barranquilla) is
Colombia's most important ffolklore celebration, one of the
biggest carnivals in the world. The carnival has traditions that
date back to the 19th century. Forty days before Holy
Week, Barranquilla decks itself out to receive national and
foreign tourists, and join together with the city's inhabitants to
enjoy four days of intense festivities. During the
carnival Barranquilla's normal activities are paralyzed because
the city gets busy with street dances,
musical and masquerade parades. Barranquilla's
Carnival includes dances like the Spanish
paloteo, african Congo and indigenous mico y
micas.

12.  Many styles of Colombian music are also performed, most prominently
cumbia, and instruments include drums and wind ensembles. The
Carnival of Barranquilla was proclaimed Cultural Masterpiece of the
Nation by Colombia's National Congress on 2002.[1] Also the
UNESCO, in Paris on November 7, 2003, declared it as one of the
Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, and it
was during Olga Lucia Rodriquez Carnival Queen year.
The Carnival starts on the Saturday before Ash Wednesday with the
Battle of the Flowers, which is considered one of the main activities.
Then, The Great Parade on Sunday and Monday is marked by an
Orchestra Festival with Caribbean and Latin bands. Tuesday signals
the end of the carnival, announced by the burial of Joselito
Carnaval, who is mourned by everyone.
Barranquilla's Carnival slogan is: Who lives it, is who enjoys it (Quien lo
vive, es quien lo goza).

13. The carnival queen is chosen at the end of the previous
year so that she has time to prepare herself. The King
Momo is also chosen around this time, and whoever is
the queen or the king has taken part in the carnival
since childhood and is well known for his carnival spirit.
Rehearsals for the carnival start
several weeks before the Carnival
and every Friday of this season is
Carnival Friday.

14. The Carnival Queen presides over the different events until the symbolic burial of Joselito
Carnaval (Joseph Carnival). Carnival starts off with the Pre-Carnival activities. The festival
officially begins with the Lectura del Bando, which is the traditional reading of the carnival
proclamation. Here it is stated that everyone must enjoy themselves, dance and party wildly.
Although the carnival officially initiates with this activity, in Barranquilla there is happiness
and joy weeks before of this. The Pre-Carnival activities include the Lectura Del
Bando, Toma de la Ciudad (Taking the City), the Crowing of the Carnival Queen and
King, the Children’s Carnival Procession,and finally the most important pre-carnival event, La
Guacherna. The Guacherna is a night parade of dances, cumbias, and masquerades, which
takes place a Friday before the Saturday of carnival.
The Carnival starts on the Saturday before Ash Wednesday with the Battle of the
Flowers, which is the most important event of the carnival. The Battle of the Flowers is a
traditional float parade composed of the greatest and most colorful creations.
Approximately, is a six hour show of floats and it is led by the Carnival Queen followed by
folk dances, musicians, dance groups, costumed groups, marchers, disguises and fire
breathers. The audience can enjoy all the carnival characters here.
Sunday of Carnival is when the Great Parade takes place. It is considered a day of mask
and disguises because floats are not present this day. Different dance groups compete
against each other for the coveted prize of performing in the Battle of the Flowers the
following year.

15.  Monday is marked by an Orchestra Festival, with Caribbean and Latin bands from
early afternoon until early Tuesday. The Festival involved various categories and
groups that compete for the coveted Golden Congo. The Fantasy Parade is also
presented on Monday, and it is a very colorful parade in which all kinds of customs
are seen.
Tuesday signals the end of the carnival, announced by the burial of Joselito
Carvajal, who is mourned by everyone. Joselito, a character who symbolizes the joy
of the festivities, who had resurrected the Saturday of carnival and dies on the last
day tired and hungover to resurrect the following year in the next carnival. Tuesday`s
parade is shorter than the other parades, and here happy widows participate crying
because of this personage`s death. It is similar to burial. At night, a funny litany is
celebrated with simple lines and its characteristic tone, and current national and
international affairs are criticized. The next day is Ash Wednesday and Lent, a period
of religious devotion and abstinence, begins.
All of the carnival events are often broadcasted live by regional television channels.
The Carnival of Barranquilla is very important for the economy of the entire region.
Tourism increases significantly these 4 days, which are holidays in Barranquilla.

16.  The music contains a mixture
of cumbia, porro, mapale, gaita, chandé, puya, fandango, and fantastic merecumbés.
These are examples of many styles of Colombian music. It is a party that gathers up
tradition based on the creativity of the Colombian people, and it is expressed by
various forms of dancing, by means of music, by different forms of art works, by the
wearing of different costumes, and by the way of celebrating. The Carnaval
ofBarranquilla is unique because of its cultural diversity and because it is a party
where the people are the main protagonists. Every dance, every folkloric group, and
every custom play different roles to make the party the best show on earth.
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 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.

17.  La Marimonda, which are hooded figures with long noses, floppy ears and bright
trousers and vests, is the most popular costume because it is the only costume
that originated in Barranquilla. The rest of the costumes come from European or
African origin.
 Carnaval de BarranquillaMarimonda characters
 Other traditional customs are El garabato, El Africano, Dracula, El torito, EL
Congo, El Monocuco, Los Cabezones, Las Muñeconas, and El Tigrillo.
 The Carnival s dances are: La Cumbia, El Garabato, El Son de Negro, El
Congo, El Mapale, El Caiman, El Paloteo, El Gusano, Las Farotas, De Relacion
and Las Pilanderas.
 "The cumbia, a good example of the fusion of Indian, Black and White elements
that simulates a couple courting and is characterized by the elegance and subtle
movements of the woman’s hips to the rhythm of a drum and flute." Another of
the main dances is the Garabato, which represents a mystical battle between life
and death. The Congo represents African tradition in its movement and also the
memory of slavery in America

21.  The Carnival 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.