Colombian Festival Foodways

Festival

CARNAVAL DE BARRANQUILLA in February — UNESCO-inscribed, and the food is the street fritura, sancocho and butifarra. CARNAVAL DE NEGROS Y BLANCOS in Pasto at the start of January — also UNESCO-inscribed. FERIA DE LAS FLORES in Medellín in August, with the silleteros. FIESTAS DE SAN PACHO in Quibdó in September-October — UNESCO-inscribed, Afro-Colombian and Catholic at once. FERIA DE CALI at the end of December. The FESTIVAL VALLENATO in Valledupar. NAVIDAD — natilla, buñuelos, hojuelas, the novenas from 16 December, and the DÍA DE LAS VELITAS on 7 December when the whole country lights candles in the street. SEMANA SANTA in Popayán and Mompox. And the Indigenous and agricultural festivals that do not share this calendar.