Indigenous carnivals

They are celebrated in Mocoa during the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.The barons of the tribe are dressed in black or white cousins, long trousers, and a crown of colorful feathers on their heads.

The women wear an outfit composed of skirt and blouse made in canvas cloth, dyed with a pepa called curiguasca, that they gird their waist with a long strip of several colors; All items are woven by themselves.Their necks are adorned by both men and women with abundant multicolored necklaces, called chaquiras, and paint their faces with dots and lines of various colors, predominantly red.

 The instruments that are used in this carnival are drums, rounding flutes and also the dissected carapace of the charapa, in whose edges they adhere black wax that extract of the honeycombs of bee and with a long and manipulated bone. On this shell they achieve a special sound.