Honda Subienda Carnival

Named for the subienda, the seasonal Magdalena River fish migration that made Honda a major inland fishing port, this carnival began in February 1962 with a popular pageant honouring the river's abundance. Parades and cultural events now run each year during the first quarter, when bocachico and other migratory fish are most abundant near Honda's colonial riverside townscape.

Honda's carnival takes its name from the subienda, the annual upstream fish migration on the Magdalena River that the Salto de Honda rapids force close to shore, historically making the town, already one of Colombia's most important inland fishing ports by the 1960s, an unusually productive place to catch bocachico, nicuro, catfish, capaz and tolomba in large volumes during the year's first quarter.