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Her Majesty
Lourdes Mercedes Esquivel Cedeño
Queen of the Festival,
2025
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Guararé and Panamá invite you to
experience our culture in its maximum folkloric
expression:
The 73rd Festival Nacional
de la Mejorana.
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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. Now in
its 73rd year, 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
Mercy, 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, the
Great Oxcarts 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 1995-2026,
Enrique A. Medina, PhD
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Not
all of the information presented on these pages is
official information from the Town of Guararé or the
Festival Nacional de la Mejorana Organizing
Committee. The producers, sponsors, and
collaborators assume no responsibility for errors or
omissions in the data presented.
For comments about this page, please
send email to festival@guarare.com
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