Festival de Guloyas San Pedro de Macoris

The Guloyas, a UNESCO-recognized Cocolo dance-drama tradition performed by descendants of English-speaking Caribbean sugar-plantation immigrants in San Pedro de Macoris, are most prominently staged each June 29 for the feast of St. Peter. This listing closely overlaps with a separately catalogued Festival Guloya entry for the same city and tradition.

The Guloyas, formally recognized by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, are a Cocolo dance-drama tradition performed in San Pedro de Macoris by descendants of English-speaking Caribbean immigrants, primarily from the Leeward and Windward Islands, who arrived to work the region's sugar plantations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.