Major+Holidays+in+Uruguay

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[|Click here to visit where these notes were obtained from!] Uruguay re-named Christmas Family Day and Easter Week is known as Criollo Week. The most celebrated holiday is Carnival. Carnival is a week long celebration that marks the begining of Lent in Februrary. This holidays includes many street parades and lots of feasting and dancing.

Many of Uruguay's holidays come from their heritage of cattle-raising. During Easter Week they have a celebration in Montevideo. It is called Fiesta Guacha or a Cowboy Festival. The main even is rodeo!

They have rituals when normal things happen in their lifes. There are rituals for birth, peuberty, and death.

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