The Colombian caribe region parties are rituals that communicate collective feelings of well-being, happiness, exaltation, contradiction or bereavement. In the first place are those that evoke religious beliefs. In them the towns thank and they request to their gods the favor in the crops, in the love, in the health and in the prosperity. On the other hand exist parties called laymen or profane. In them the life is celebrated. In these revels, the human body is allowed the licentiousness and the enjoyment transforms into the center of the celebration. This classification of the parties should not make us lose the central idea, which is that the party always traffics between the sacred thing and the profane thing. This way for example is Barranquilla´s Carnival finishes on religious commemoration. After satiating the appetites of the body, Joselito Carnival dies and start the period of the Lent that he invites to the austerity and the fast begins this way.
These rhythms are characteristic of the Colombian caribe region :
Danza del Paloteo
Danza de las Farotas
Danza del Congo
Puya
El Porro
Lambalú
Fandango
El Mapalé
Tambora
Baile Negro
Chotis
Danza del Garabato
