The Barranquilla Carnival is Colombia's largest carnival celebration held each year in Barranquilla along Route 40 from February 9-12. Over 1 million visitors and locals participate annually in the four day festival expressing the diverse cultural traditions of Colombia's Atlantic Coast through music, dancing, colorful parades and floats. Considered the most representative event of Barranquilla, the carnival unleashes the folklore of the region and is a celebration of the joy and creativity of the Barranquilla people.

2. Carnival is the most
important festival of
Barranquilla, the
happiest, the most
libertarian, which
reflects more
strongly the jovial
and creative spirit
of our people, and
affirms our
belonging to the
Caribbean.

3. Next year it is going
to start in February 9,
2013 (Saturday)
It is going to end in
February 12, 2013
(Tuesday)

4. WHERE IS THE
BARRANQUILLA’S CARNIVAL?
The Carnival of
Barranquilla
is held every
year at the
Route 40 since
1991

5. The
Barranquilla´s
Carnival lasts
four days each
year

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

7. In the Barranquilla’s Carnival people listen to
several Colombian Caribbean music as:
Party in Barranquilla (ALVARO CARDENAS),
Rumba Carnival (Anibal Velásquez), Joselito
Carnaval (Pacho Galan) Festajan Carnival
(JOSE PIANETA Pitalua), Carnival (JOE
ARROYO) The Four Parties (Adolfo
Echeverria), Carnival Juliet (RAMON ROPAIN)
, Carnival of Barranquilla (MARIO Garena),
Pica Pica on Carnival (Anibal Velásquez),
Carnavaliando (SONORA CURRO), the
Carnival polvito (Ambassadors VALLENATO)
Tamborito Carnival (LOS CORALLEROS
Majagual) Pa'goza Carnival (CUMBIA
SOLEDEÑA) Carnivals (CUMBIA SOLEDEÑA)
Huléla Carnival (Alfredo Gutierrez), Fruit of
the Carnival (CUCKOO VALOY), Carnival (JOE
MADRID), Battle of Flowers (GRUPO NICHE),
Amen (RAMON ROPAIN), El Palito of
cheering the Carnival (CHARLIE PLA),
Carnival (PERNET)

8. The Carnival is a cultural event
which expresses and represents
all cultural varieties of the
Colombian Atlantic Coast, it
unleashes the folklore of the
region, the most diverse local
cultural events, music and
dancing. It is, without question,
the most representative of the
city, a fun space that attracts all
and sundry.

9. This season, they could
mobilize about 40 billion dollars
and create more than 20,000
jobs, both direct and indirect,
according to estimates by the
director of Carnival, Carla Celia.
It is a fashion business, where
the informal sector goes hand
in hand with business formal.
In a desirable trading platform
has become in recent years the
Carnival of Barranquilla, ancient
festival where you can go
beyond the dancing, the
costumes, the floats and profit.

10. The Carnival of Barranquilla is a celebration of all
that the barranquilleros enjoy using regional
talent and inexhaustible creative personal and
collective, innate coastal Colombian Caribbean,
which has grown to become one of the most rich
and authentic cultural expressions of our country
and symbol of this city that became his favorite
fetish. Each annuity carnival we always modify
the majesty, beauty and order of its various
events, starting with the official launch of
Carnival, followed by the reading of the
Proclamation and colorful parades and other
events in the Pre-carnival season, in which
Guacherna emphasizes the call to start later the
four days of Carnival with the oldest and most
representative of the parades, such as the Battle
of Flowers with their floats, cumbias, parades,
costumes and dances, among others, and in 2003
turned one hundred years. On Saturday, Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday are the highest point of a
party that is increasing in speed and enthusiasm
to reach its total joy.