Carnival of Oruro
Season or date: February or March (Carnival season)
The country's largest festival, featuring the UNESCO-registered Diablada (Devil Dance)
Festivals in Bolivia
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Festivals
Uintilla Festival
Season or date: June 21 (Winter Solstice)
Celebration of the Aymara new year, watching sunrise at Tiwanaku ruins
Santa Cruz Independence Festival
Season or date: September 24
A provincial festival with parades and music in the largest eastern city
Tucumanozo (Day of the Dead)
Season or date: November 1
Indigenous tradition of honoring ancestors with bread dolls and skeletons
Gran Poder Festival
Season or date: Late May to early June
Spectacular parade and folk dance celebration in La Paz's old town
Potosí Founding Festival
Season or date: November 10
Features miners' marches and charango instrument competitions
Cochabamba's Virgen de Urkupiña Festival
Season or date: August 15
Religious procession carrying the Virgin Mary statue through the city
Chiquitano Baroque Music Festival
Season or date: Easter period (biennial)
Baroque music concerts preserving Jesuit mission traditions
National Huayño Dance Competition
Season or date: October
National contest of the Quechua traditional dance Huayño
Sea Day Parade
Season or date: March 23
Military ceremony expressing desire to reclaim lost Pacific coast access
Public holidays
- New Year's Day
- Carnival (movable)
- Good Friday
- Labor Day
- Corpus Christi
- Independence Day (August 6)
- All Saints' Day
- Christmas