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Joy, color fill Brazil's Amazon region at the start of Forest Carnival

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Camata, Feb 22 (EFE).- Hundreds on Saturday participated in the Forest Carnival, one of the most traditional carnivals in Brazil's Amazonian community of Juaba. Several thousand kilometers from the well-known festivals of Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Recife or Sao Paulo, an exotic carnival makes its way into the saturated Brazilian calendar, that of Cameta, where hundreds of participants navigate the waters of the Tocantins River, located in the middle of the Amazon region.The colorful costumes and the huge and eye-catching masks flooded Cameta, a small municipality of just over 100,000 inhabitants of the state of Para (north) and one of the oldest in the Brazilian Amazon. (Camera: RAIMUNDO PACCO). SHOT LIST: PEOPLE PARTICIPAT IN THE FOREST CARNIVAL IN THE COMMUNITY OF JUABA, CITY OF CAMETA, STATE OF PARA, BRAZIL.

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