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Pintaflores Festival in San Carlos
Pintaflores Festival is San Carlos City's civic and cultural celebration in Negros Occidental, in which street dancers paint colorful flower designs directly onto their bodies, drawing on the city's name, which combines the Spanish words for painted and flowers.
San Carlos City in Negros Occidental developed Pintaflores Festival as a civic celebration built directly around the meaning of its own name, combining the Spanish word pinta, meaning paint, with flores, meaning flowers, to create a festival whose central visual identity is body paint depicting floral patterns rather than the elaborate sewn costume, giant effigies or carved masks that define many other Philippine festivals.