Blacks and Whites Carnival brings color to southern Colombia
The Carnival of Blacks and Whites bursts back into the streets of Pasto this weekend, as a...
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Barranquilla mayor to manage Colombia’s largest Carnival
The mayor’s office of Barranquilla is set to take over management of the city’s Carnival festivities, local media reported Thursday. A Colombian administrative court made the ruling Wednesday that Barranquilla local...
Barranquilla carnival comes to Bogota
The Barranquilla Carnival comes to Bogota this weekend, with exclusive performances organized to raise money for good causes, announced the Barranquilla Carnival Press Office Wednesday. Key members of the carnival will perform a...
Cirque Le Masque brings magic of Rio’s Carnival to Medellin (video)
Cirque Le Masque acrobatic carnival will perform in Medellin from Saturday, October 8 to Monday, October 17. In its own words, the carnival is “a passport to the world’s biggest party.. Rio de Janiero.” The show is the tale of a...
Barranquilla crowns new carnival queen
The Colombian Carribbean city of Barranquilla crowned a new carnival queen Friday as it prepares for next year’s festivities. 22-year-old Andrea Jaramilo Char was selected as the 2012 Barranquilla carnival queen. Char has...
Barranquilla carnival in photos
The Barranquilla carnival, Colombia’s most important cultural event of the year, kicked off Saturday with its traditional Batalla de las Flores (Flower Battle). {japopup type=”image”...
Barranquilla Carnival: Colombia’s biggest party starts Saturday
The world’s second largest carnival after Rio de Janeiro, renowned for its colorful cultural fusion, begins Saturday in Barranquilla on Colombia’s Caribbean coast. For four days beginning Saturday March 5, normal...
Spanish tourist murdered in Barranquilla
A Spanish tourist was killed in a robbery in the north Colombian city of Barranquilla Wednesday just after the city tightened security measures for the upcoming carnival. According to local newspaper El Heraldo, the woman was...
Fireworks accident leaves 23 injured in north-Colombia town
An explosion caused by fireworks injured at least 23 in a small town in the north of Colombia on Thursday. According to local media reports, three were taken to hospital with serious injuries. Most media spoke of 23 injured but...
Barranquilla residents can’t wait for carnival
The Barranquilla carnival this year will not start until March, but carnival-hungry residents have already declared the festive season officially opened. According to local newspaper El Heraldo, one of the organizing committees...
