It is currently held at the Romelio Martinez Stadium. The main Venue of the Carnival is the Vía 40, which is an industrial avenue where the Battle of Flowers (Saturday), the Great Parade (Sunday) and The Great Fantasy Parade (Monday) take place. In addition to widows, there may be seen other characters as priests and orphans. This proclamation may be seen as a "decree" divided into paragraphs that explains what is permitted and what is forbidden for the attendants during the period of celebration. The floats now are equipped with loudspeakers and boarded by international and national singers who invites the spectators to celebrate and dance. Also, it takes place along the Vía 40 avenue too, but there are no floats participating in it. It normally starts at the early Monday afternoon lasting until the early Tuesday morning. Four days before Holy Week, Barranquilla decks itself out to receive national and foreign tourists and joins together with the city's inhabitants to enjoy four days of intense festivities. These surprise-visits should be assumed completely and without any hesitation by the owner of the residence as a rendezvous point for making a party. It takes place on the previous week Friday before the beginning of the carnival. There are traditional dances, choreographic dances; Comparsas (a form of live music), with which the choreography and creativity of dances are expressed; Comedies, like litany are traditional and folkloric popular theater, these are traditional groups that sing in groups ; These can be individual, or collectives, "The cumbia, a good example of the fusion of Indian, Black and White elements that simulates a couple courting and is characterized by the elegance and subtle movements of the woman's hips to the rhythm of a drum and flute." This undoubtedly has been criticised since non-upper-class young women cannot aspire to hold the queen title due to the astronomically high sums of money that costs to be the carnival queen.
Since 1999, The Barranquilla Carnaval Foundation celebrates the "Joselito se va con las cenizas" contest to encourage more groups to join in this celebration and in which the best portrayal is awarded. These carnival dancing encounters were commonplace in the middle-upper and upper class and were a spread activity until the official appearance of dancing rooms hosted by nightclubes and hotels.These were semi-open, free access rooms where people met to dance and enjoy themselves. The celebration starts off firmly with the Battle of Flowers, which is the most important and most expected event. It is the third day of Carnival. La Guacherna unofficially started as early as the beginnings of the 20th century in The idea of bringing about such a nocturnal parade in the Barranquilla's Carnival dates back to a night in 1958, when Esther forero was at a nocturnal parade in The insignia song of this date is the merengue song with the same name "The carnival is celebrated during the four days before the It is the first day of Carnival. The following are the categories in which the musical ensembles vie for obtaining the Congo de Oro prize:
In this way, thousands of Barranquilla persons go out on the streets to cry the deceased with play-acting. In this parade, mini-floats adapted to the size of the children are seen. Joselito Carnaval may be either a real person or a dummy, and it is used to be transported either within a coffin or stretches decorated with flowers and surrounded by its crying widows – these crying widows may be men disguised as women –. The most important event carried out on this day is: The great tradition and folklore parade (Gran parada de tradición y folclore).This parade, commonly called as the great parade, is carried out on the second day of Carnival and was introduced in 1967.
It was at first a holiday for slaves, and grew to be a celebration of the region.
This tradition is mainly because a large part of the spendings, for instance those related to the attire worn by the queen during her crowning, are paid by the queen's family. This event attracts renewing proposals searching for an space in the carnival. The Carnival of Barranquilla (Spanish: Carnaval de Barranquilla) is one of Colombia's most important folkloric celebrations, and one of the biggest carnival in the world. It therefore shows innovating choreographic mixtures fluctuating from the most traditional, through the local, to the international by blending international rhythms, such as samba, salsa, reggaeton, champeta and electronic music with other local ones such as cumbia, porro, mapalé and merecumbé.