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This
festival is celebrated in Trujillo on the last week of September.
The festival of spring is celebrated all over Peru, with especially
colorful variants in the jungle. However Trujillo, capital
of the department of La Libertad, has forged a particular
reputation for holding the festival of greatest splendor.
The festival is intimately linked to the marinera norteña,
which is always danced by a couple, waving a handkerchief
in the air to keep time. The festival features various tournaments
demonstrating the regional variations of this dance.
During the week-long festival, streets and homes fill with
decorations, floats are paraded through the city, and troupes
of schoolchildren dance through the streets, led by the beauty
queen of the spring pageant. The beauty queen is always flanked
by drum majorettes who travel here from all over the world
to show off their skills.
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