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Fiesta Canaria in Canelones
Canary Islanders were among the earliest European settlers of colonial Uruguay, and Canelones sits in a region historically shaped by that migration, but no dedicated source confirming a specific, named Fiesta Canaria program held in Canelones city was found in available research.
Canelones department, and the wider southern Uruguay region, carries genuine historical ties to Canary Islands immigration: settlers from the Canary Islands were part of the founding waves of colonial migration to the Montevideo area centuries ago, and broader reference sources note that Canary Islands gastronomy and cultural influence spread to several countries where Canary communities settled, explicitly including Uruguay.