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- It is celebrated in honor of Virgen de Socavon, which is the Saint patroness of the miners.

- It is celebrated in a parade with over fifty dance groups there.

- They play and sing over a 5 km long course.

- The carnival takes place in Brazil.

- Rio has the largest parade and is the most popular area to celebrate this event.

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- The carvnival takes place on most streets in Spanish towns.

- People dress up and dance and party in the streets.

- People spend all year making their costume for the event.

- In 2019, it will take place between the 28th of February and the 5th of March.

- Laza holds around 1,500 people that are already there to celebrate in the carnival

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- The theme and place of the carnival goes up for public voting.

- The Santa Cruz de Tenerife Parade is on February 13th

- The funeral of the Sardine is on February 14th

- Cabalgarda Anunciadora del Carnaval is on February 7th

- All events last for at least 24 hours

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- The tradition of the carnival started since 1858

- "vejigantes" are the costumes people wear that represent colorful creatures with horns

- vejigantes were originally demons that showed up to religious festivals, but as the tradition of the carnival and parade grew more popular, they brightened them up to not be so demonic

- some masks have hundreds of horns of different shapes and sizes on vejigantes

- The carnival takes place during the last week before lent begins

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- The carnival is celebrated through the entire month of February throughout the whole countries filled with parades each week

- The wearing of masks symbolize spiritual, supernatural and unknown spirit world entities

- People in ancient times of this tradition used masks to either depict, get the attention of, or to hide themselves from a higher, or more spiritual being

- Since many African people have been there since their arrival in earlier history, the people of the Dominican Republic and African people act as slaves and their Spanish captors as they act to abuse the slaves.  It is a weird tradition, but that is what they do.

- the Carnival has been celebrated in Santo Domingo since the mid 1500's

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- A religious event for Catholic people

- One type of carnival group is called "charros"

- "charros" is a word that reffers to upper-class Mexicans who oversaw cattle ranchers during the mid to late 19th century.

- The dancers wear headdresses and draped clothing

- A lot of their clothing is made of ostrich feathers

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- It is the second largest carnival in the world

- There is an event on March 2nd called "Battle of the Flowers" which is a six hour parade

- People also get very messy during the parader as they will spray foam and douse you in flour.

- People dress as animals during the parade

- People dress in very bright colors

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- Largest carnival in the world

- People from all around the world come to attend this carnival

- They celebrate all day, night, and into the next morning

- It is so loud, you can hear the samba music playing outside of the city

- This carnival is about the inherent spirit of the Cariocas