The document summarizes the Folk Festival of Parintins, an annual festival held in late June in the Brazilian town of Parintins located in the Amazon rainforest. During the festival, which lasts three days, the town is divided between supporters of two competing performance groups called Bumbás that stage elaborate performances. With a population of around 50,000, the town transforms during the festival into the stage for the largest cultural event in Brazil's Northern region.

1. Folk Festival of PARINTINS 2009 Anually in days: 26,27 and 28 ofjune-photos

39. Parintins, typical city from the brazilian Rain Forests, witch counts a bit more than 50 thousand inhabitants, it gets transformed when June comes. These times, when the city is divided by the red and blue colors of the BumbásCaprichoso and Garantido, Parintins is stage of the biggest cultural manifestation of the Brazilian North, the Folk Festival of Parintins.

40. The town is located close to the right border of the Amazonia River, in an area of 5,978 square kilometres and 369 kilometres away from the capital, Manaus, in a straight line, and 420 kilometres by fluvial way. That means 15 hours coming down and 27 going up by the Amazonia River if the itinerary is accomplished by regional boats. By air, the estimated time is about one hour and a half, leaving Manaus.

41. Folk Festival of PARINTINS ByDiramar 2009, july www.slideshare.net/diramar Music: Carrapicho - tictictac