Niño Dios de Pumarume (Child-God of Pumarume) - Celendín
14th of January
This "Child-God" is famous for its miracles and legends. In the part of Celendin that's called Pumarume (in the South) you can find a statue of the Niño of Pumarume, only 50 cms of height, a white, blond boy with light-coloured eyes. The 14th of January people celebrate his appearence
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Changes yearly, February, early days of March.
Main days are the weekend before ash Wednesday. 2008: 2nd and 3rd of February.
It's celebrated first of all by playing with water. It starts the first days of February, from then going out on the street isn't safe anymore, because children and adults start playing with balloons of water to wet each other. Mostly on Sundays, and specially the main days when you are absolutely sure to get wet and you better prepare yourself with balloons as well! This weekend it's not just water, but also paint, so make sure you don't put on your new cloths...
In the evenings close to the main days people already start to celebrate in the evenings by dancing and singing along in the streets. The Saturday before enters Mr Carnaval in Celendín, and at the end they will burry him as well, with an oficial goodbye with crying people and a testament. The main Sunday also a large parade with people in beautiful dresses and costumes and cars. After the main Sunday people start to celebrate in the evenings, for weeks almost every night at least in one of the neighbourhoods you will find a party going on, mostly outside on the street around a kind of large tree with presents in the top, that's called Unsha.
15th of May (The main days in 2008: 16, 17 and 18)
Celebration of the Saint and Patron of Sucre: San Isidro Labrador. The three main days famous bullfighters of Peru, and sometimes international ones as well, will fight bulls. Every bull is dedicated to a certain group of people.
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