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National Students Festival in San Salvador de Jujuy
A Jujuy student-built float parade tracing back to homemade carts circling Plaza Belgrano in the early 1950s, formalized as a national, multi-province festival in 1972. Secondary-school 'carroceros' spend months building technically judged floats, each paired with a school-elected queen. Governor Jorge Villafañe's 1952 award ceremony for student float builders is usually cited as the format's real starting point.
Secondary-school students called 'carroceros' spend months welding and decorating parade floats for a festival that began as a handful of homemade carts circling Jujuy's Plaza Belgrano in the early 1950s.