Tumbes Carnival Festivities

The month of February completely transforms the social geography of Tumbes with the arrival of the Carnival festivities, which usually extend over the first three weeks of the month. The streets of the entire region fill with comparsas, parades (corsos), dances and the traditional water and paint games.

In Tumbes, carnival goes beyond the mere temporary inversion of social norms: it works as a powerful catalyst for binational integration. Peruvian and Ecuadorian citizens share a common playful space that dissolves geopolitical borders, in one of the most anticipated folk celebrations in northern Peru.