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Maracatu - GOR-82890-11

Maracatu representing his home town during the Lavagem, the spiritual cleansing of Little Brazil 46th Street.

He is celebrating his ethnic Brazilian pride, Maracatu is a fusion of pre-existing forms of Carnival revelry and is Afro-indigenous in origin
from Pernambuco, in northeastern Brazil.

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Maracatu representing his home town during the Lavagem, the spiritual cleansing of Little Brazil 46th Street. <br />
<br />
He is celebrating his ethnic Brazilian pride, Maracatu is a fusion of pre-existing forms of Carnival revelry and is Afro-indigenous in origin<br />
from Pernambuco, in northeastern Brazil.