September 20 to 26, 2007, Guararé, Republic of Panamá
Visit the official website of the festival at www.festivalnacionaldelamejorana.com.
Guararé and Panamá invite you to experience our culture in its maximum folkloric expression: El Festival Nacional de la Mejorana. |
In 1949, Professor Manuel F. Zárate,
with a group of friends from his home town, Guararé, initiated a
tradition that has become the most renowned folkloric festival of the Republic
of Panamá. Today, more than fifty years later, the National Folkloric Festival
of la Mejorana
in Guararé continues to promote the Panamanian folklore and keeps
on protecting the traditional customs that are integral part of life in
the provinces of Panamá. Together with the
Patron
Saint Festival of the Virgin of Las Mercedes, the Guarareños
(the people of Guararé) organize each year an event that gathers
in this little town in the Azuero Peninsula in Panamá a large number
of folkloric groups from around the country with the common objectives of
enjoying, spreading, and preserving the Panamanian folklore. Musical performances,
dances, singing, bull fights, an oxcart parade, popular dances, and many
other folkloric expressions and competitions take place during the Festival. Guararé, a town that is welcoming, festive, and musical by nature,
becomes host each September to many organized folkloric groups and many
Panamanians and visitors that participate in a true celebration of Panamanian
life. Copyright 1995-2007, Enrique A. Medina |
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