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Manaus Carnival in Manaus
Manaus runs its own five-day Carnival each February at the city's Amazon River sambodromo, where samba schools compete with floats and costumes carrying a distinctly regional identity locally nicknamed Carnaboi, folding Amazonian Boi-Bumba imagery into the standard national samba-school format. Street blocos fill the surrounding city alongside the ticketed competition, drawing a mix of regional river-town visitors and Amazon tourism travelers.
Manaus stages its Carnival at the city's sambodromo far up the Amazon River, a five-day program each February that blends the standard Brazilian Carnival format, samba schools, floats, costumed wings, with a distinctly Amazonian identity that has come to be known locally as Carnaboi, a name that signals how strongly the region's Boi-Bumba folklore has folded into the city's Carnival celebrations.