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Festival de la Sandia de Paine in Paine
Running for decades, Paine's watermelon festival runs a Friday-Saturday concert program at the Estadio Municipal de Paine in late January, anchored in the commune's reputation as a leading watermelon-growing area of the Metropolitana region. Expect a full evening lineup of national and regional artists alongside watermelon and other food stalls.
Paine's Festival de la Sandia grew directly out of the commune's agricultural identity: decades of local growers producing high-quality watermelons on the fertile land south of Santiago turned Paine into a byword for the fruit across the Metropolitana region, and the festival that eventually formalized around that reputation has run for decades.