{"id":499355,"date":"2026-02-04T18:38:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/national-carnival-parade-2026-announced-dedicated-to-puerto-plata\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:38:36","slug":"national-carnival-parade-2026-announced-dedicated-to-puerto-plata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/national-carnival-parade-2026-announced-dedicated-to-puerto-plata\/","title":{"rendered":"National Carnival Parade 2026 Announced, Dedicated to Puerto Plata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Puerto Plata.\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>The ministers of the Presidency, Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Paliza, and of Culture, Roberto \u00c1ngel Salcedo, announced the celebration of the 2026 National Carnival Parade, which will take place on Sunday, March 15, on the Santo Domingo boardwalk and will be dedicated to Puerto Plata, in recognition of its cultural identity and its contributions to the country's carnival tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe National Carnival Parade is a living expression of our identity and a platform to project Dominican culture inside and outside the country. This dedication to Puerto Plata recognizes a tradition with its own characteristics and an unquestionable cultural value,\u201d expressed Paliza.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nDuring the meeting with the media, it was announced that <strong>photographer Mariano Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong> will be the king of the 2026 National Carnival Parade, in recognition of his outstanding career as a documentarian of Dominican folklore, while <strong>communicator Zoila Luna<\/strong> will assume the title of queen, in merit of her extensive and sustained career in national radio and television.\n\nIt was also detailed that the parade will feature the participation of international guests, including the Carnival of Blacks and Whites of Pasto, Colombia, declared an intangible cultural heritage of humanity by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@UNESCO\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@UNESCO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNESCO<\/a>, and representatives of the Independent League of Samba Schools of Rio de Janeiro.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>You can also read: <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nThe organizers project the participation of some <strong>170 comparsas and around 9,000 members<\/strong>, including artists, musicians, dancers and artisans, in an assembly that will bring together traditional expressions, fantasy proposals and popular creativity.\n\nThe dedication to Puerto Plata seeks to highlight one of the most distinctive carnival manifestations in the country, characterized by its maritime identity and by the taim\u00e1scaro, an emblematic character of the province, created in 1991 as an identifying seal of its carnival.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"605240\" src=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-04-at-5.03.52-PM-1-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-605240\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"605241\" src=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-04-at-5.03.52-PM-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-605241\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"605239\" src=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-04-at-5.03.52-PM-3-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-605239\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Plata.\u2013\u00a0The ministers of the Presidency, Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Paliza, and of Culture, Roberto \u00c1ngel Salcedo, announced the celebration of the 2026 National Carnival Parade, which will take place on Sunday, March 15, on the Santo Domingo boardwalk and will be dedicated to Puerto Plata, in recognition of its cultural identity and its contributions to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-499355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina Alvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c41b7d2513f99fce290b3781fa561c1b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}