Parintins Festival

Luxurious as the Carnival parades, like the epic legends and traditional indigenous cattle with Bumba Junin, the Parintins Festival is the main religious feast of the Amazon. During three days in the last weekend of June, two associations compete for the best presentation. They are the oxen and Guaranteed Capricious.

The celebration which started timidly in 1913, became a festival in 1965 and from 80 years, filled with luxury thanks to the influence of Joãozinho Trinta carnival.

Dispute between the ox "Garantido" Guaranteed and "Caprichoso" Capricious is the main attraction of the Festival of Parintins. (AM)

The festival mobilizes the city of Parintins (AM) before and during the festival. The roughly 50,000 inhabitants of the island is 396 km from Manaus on the banks of the Amazon River, watch the city's population doubled with tourists arriving by regatão (typical passenger boat with nets spread by boat).

The dispute, which first materialized in real street fights, is now done bumbódromo, built exactly for this purpose. But the rivalry is present all year in the city. The houses are painted according to your "ox heart". So, who is guaranteed its facade painted in red, who is capricious, blue.

The shows during the Festival of Parintins portray the reality and the imaginary of the Amazon region.

From the streets of Parintins, gradually, the festival was being taken to other places. First regionally. In Manaus, the melody, the rhythm that rocks the groups, the music is better heard in the streets, at parties, on the radio. The national interest for the festival has grown thanks to the government's massive propaganda Amazon. Groups like the cheesy Burr took the music to radio Parintins Brazil. Other musicians like the singer Fafa de Belém, also recorded tunes.

Currently interesting merchandising, the festival is sponsored by several large companies. In 2008, Adidas created a shoe with a focus at the festival with two different models: the blue and white. Coca-Cola comes to change the color of their cans and banners, secular painting your logo with blue to please both fans of the Capricious as the guarantor. In 12 years, the company invested $ 42 million in the event. In 2008, the Bandeirantes TV network bought for $ 10 million the rights to broadcast the festival.

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