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Quinara Culture Festival in Buba/Quinara
Quinara, governed from Buba and home to the Beafada people, has no independently confirmed standalone Culture Festival separate from the region's own carnival delegation, which competes each year in Bissau's national parade. Documented cultural activity in the region instead centers on Beafada song and oral tradition recording projects.
Quinara, the region governed from Buba in south-central Guinea-Bissau, is home mainly to the Beafada people, whose long-standing presence gives the area its identity as the traditional Beafada homeland within the country's ethnic mosaic, alongside smaller Mandinga, Fula, Balanta, Manjaco and Papel communities.