The New Year in Colombia starts in Pasto

On 2008/01/10, in Culture, by Albeiro Rodas
Stories of black and white in the oldest Colombian Carnival.
Carnaval de Negros y Blancos

A family in the Carnival of Pasto. Picture by tito_lol.

If sources are agreed in the year of the beginning of many Colombian feasts and carnivals, there is one that is unknown however. Are we in front to a cultural manifestation that revels our identity? Here some reasons why the Carnival of White and Blacks of Pasto is a living national patrimony.

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