Festival de Teatro de Mascaras Caibarien

Caibarien's best-documented festival tradition is its Parrandas, a competitive December neighbourhood celebration dating to 1892 featuring elaborate floats and staged plaza works, trabajos de plaza, with substantial costuming and stagecraft. A festival independently branded Festival de Teatro de Mascaras, distinct from this Parrandas tradition, could not be confirmed with its own separate founding date or programme, so this listing likely connects to the mask and costume elements within the Parrandas rather than a fully separate event.

Caibarien holds one of Cuba's most distinctive local festival traditions in its Parrandas, a competitive neighbourhood celebration dating to 1892 when the town began imitating the older, more famous Parrandas of nearby Remedios, splitting Caibarien into two rival neighbourhoods, La Loma and La Marina, that compete each December with elaborate floats, staged tableau works called trabajos de plaza, greetings exchanged between neighbourhoods, changuis music and fireworks displays.