BRAZIL

In Juazeiro (Bahia), procession of Bom Jesus of Navigators, popular religious feast accompanied by band music. River is a procession with several fishing boats on the Rio São Francisco, and then restore the image of the Cathedral of Bom Jesus and pray the mass. .- January 6 Epiphany. National holiday. 3 to 6 January .- Fiesta de los Reyes in Carpina (Pernambuco) January 7 .- Fiesta de los Reyes in Teresopolis (Rio de Janeiro), folk festival, in which children and young people dress in white and request donations to the community, singing and playing instruments like guitars, tambourines and others. January 15 .- Fiesta de Santo Amaro's Goytacazes Fields (Rio de Janeiro); regional religious feast of the saint of the baixada camper, which is a mass, with payments of pledges and christenings. It also makes the representation of the struggle between Moors and Christians, known as horses. Second Thursday after the Epiphany (January 6) .- Bonfim Festival is held in Salvador de Bahia, and consists of washing the steps of the Church of Our Lord of Bonfim, in the Afro-Christian syncretism, corresponds to Oxalá, the oldest of the deities, the son of Olorum, supreme body of Yoruba mythology. It continues until Sunday. 24 January-February 2 .- celebrations of the feast of Our Lady of Nazareth, in Nazaré (Bahia)