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Browse feature articles on Latin festivals in New York City including: holidays, independence days, national days, and more.

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Panamanian Parade NYC Celebrates Panamanian Independence

Panamanian Parade NYC (Marek Poplawski/Dreamstime)

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn 🇵🇦

Indigenous Peoples Day NYC Powwow Features Intertribal Drumming, Singing, Dancing, Cultural Performances, Overnight Camping, and a Sunrise Ceremony

Indigenous Peoples Day NYC Powwow (Jenta Wong/Dreamstime)

RANDALLS ISLAND, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Sukkot in New York City

Sukkot, the Jewish fruit harvest festival (Carly Hennigan/Adobe)

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Hispanic Day Parade NYC, Desfile de la Hispanidad New York, Celebrates the Culture and Contributions of 21 Hispanic Countries

Hispanic Day Parade NYC Desfile de la Hispanidad de New York (Shiningcolors/Dreamstime)

FIFTH AVENUE Midtown/Midtown East, Central Park/Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇸🇻🇬🇶🇬🇹🇭🇳🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇦🇵🇾🇵🇪🇵🇷🇪🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪

National Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Parade Unites All First Nations and Friends

National Indigenous Peoples of the Americans Parade NYC (Wirestock/Dreamstime)

MADISON SQUARE PARK & BROADWAY, Flatiron District to Union Square, Manhattan 🇺🇸

San Miguel Arcángel Changed My Life

San Miguel Arcángel (Public Domain)

SEPTEMBER 29 🇩🇴

Obatalá, the Yoruba Orisha Who Made the World and People, Stands for Peace

Obatalá orisha (Epitavi/Dreamstime)

September 24 🇨🇺 🇵🇷

Queens Hispanic Parade Desfile Hispano de Queens

Queens Hispanic Parade (Kobby Dagan/Dreamstime)

37TH AVENUE, Jackson Heights, Queens 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🇬🇶 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪

African American Day Parade Celebrates Black Culture in Harlem

African American Day Parade (Roberto Galan/Dreamstime)

ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR. BLVD, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Hispanic Heritage Month in New York City

Hispanic Heritage Month in New York City (Skypixel/Dreamstime)

A meditation on what it means to be “Hispanic” in America today.

🇦🇷🇧🇴🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇸🇻🇬🇶🇬🇹🇭🇳🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇦🇵🇾🇵🇪🇵🇷🇪🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪

Brazilian Independence Day, Sete de Setembro, is September 7, 1822

Brazilian Independence Day (Lazyllama/Dreamstime)

IPIRANGA BROOK, São Paulo, Brazil, September 7, 1822 🇧🇷

Nativity of Mary Celebrates the Divinity of Mother and Child

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo "Birth of the Virgin" (1660). Louvre, Paris.

SEPTEMBER 8 🇮🇹

Our Lady of Charity, La Caridad del Cobre, is the Patron Saint of Cuba

Our Lady of Charity (Caridad del Cobre) Basilica of El Cobre, Santiago, Cuba (Christian Kaehler/Adobe)

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba September 8 🇨🇺

Our Lady of Regla, Cuba, Patron Saint of Sailors and the Sea, is a Catholic Yemayá

Our Lady of Regla procession in Regla, Havana, Cuba. (Kako Escalona/Dreamstime)

REGLA, Havana, Cuba 🇨🇺

Corn Moon is September’s Full Moon

The Harvest Moon full moon rises over the Two Bridges neighborhood (LittleNY/Dreamstime)

SEPTEMBER 🌕

Yemayá is the Yoruba Great Mother Orisha of the Sea

Yemayá, Yoruba orisha of motherhood and the sea (Audrey Kuzmin/Adobe)

February 2 🇧🇷 🇺🇾
September 7 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
December 31 🇧🇷

Oshún is the Cuban Yoruba Orisha of Fresh Water, Fertility and Love

Oshún, Orisha of fresh water, fertility and love (Diana/Adobe)

September 8 🇨🇺 🇵🇷

Rosh Hashanah is Jewish New Year and the Start of the High Holy Days

Rosh Hashanah in New York City (Roman Yanushevsky/Adobe)

Shanah tovah ✡️

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition Should Never be Forgotten

International Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (Derejeb/Dreamstime)

August 23 🇺🇸 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇩🇰 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇳

Labor Day Parade NYC

Labor Day Parade NYC (Daniel Kaesler/Dreamstime)

FIFTH AVENUE, Midtown, Manhattan

Assumption of Mary Launches Summer Holidays in Europe

Assumption of Mary (Renáta Sedmákova/Adobe)

August 15 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇾 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇪🇸

19th Amendment Gave Women the Right to Vote in 1920, But That Right is Now at Risk

The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote on August 18, 1920 (PD, Library of Virginia/Wikimedia)

AUGUST 18, 1920 🇺🇸

Indian Independence Day in New York City

Indian Independence Day at the Red Fort in New Delhi (Asian Traveler/Dreamstime)

August 15, 1947 🇮🇳

India Day Parade NYC and Cultural Festival Celebrates Indian Independence

India Day Parade NYC (Wirestock/Dreamstime)

MADISON AVENUE 🇮🇳

Ecuadorian Festival of New York, Festival Ecuatoriano, Celebrates Ecuadorian Independence and Culture

Ecuadorian Festival New York Festival Equatoriano (Neil Harrison/Dreamstime)

FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, Queens 🇪🇨

Pachamama is the Andean New Year Celebration of Mother Earth

Pachamama (Kwasny221/Adobe)

AUGUST 1 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇧🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪

Augustus Caesar Renamed the Month of August After Himself

Augustus Caeser statue outside the Forum in Rome, Italy (ShopArtGallerycom/Dreamstime)

AUGUST 🇮🇹

Dominican Restoration Day Commemorates “El Grito de Capotillo” That Finally Led to Dominican Independence

Dominican Restoration Day, General Gregorio Luperón (Public Domain/Wikipedia)

DAJABÓN, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

National Dominican Day Parade

National Dominican Day Parade (Sergio Reyes/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

SIXTH AVENUE, Midtown, Manhattan 🇩🇴

Black August is a Celebration of Freedom

Black August (Jacob Lund/Adobe)

AUGUST 🇺🇸

Harlem Week Celebrates Black Culture in the Home of the Harlem Renaissance Which Defined American Culture

Harlem Week (Rick/Adobe)

HARLEM, CENTRAL PARK, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Ogun Balenyo is the Dominican Palo Saint of Santiago de Los Caballeros

Ogun Balenyo is the Dominican Palo saint of war (Public Domain)

JULY 25 🇩🇴

Puerto Rico Constitution Day is a Great Time to Visit the Island

Puerto Rico Constitution Day (Dennis Van De Water/Dreamstime)

JULY 25 🇵🇷

St Christopher is the Traditional Patron Saint of Travelers

St Christopher fresco in Termeno, Italy (Gabriffaldi/Adobe)

JULY 25 🇮🇹

Aggayú Solá is the Cuban Yoruba Orisha of Flowing Forces of Nature

Aggayú Solá (Jose/Adobe)

JULY 25 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇵🇷

Peruvian Festival and Peruvian Parade in Paterson is NYC’s Gran Desfile y Festival Peruano

Peruvian Parade Desfile Peruano Paterson (Luis Antonio Rosendo/Dreamstime)

PASSAIC, CLIFTON, and PATERSON New Jersey 🇵🇪

Ecuadorian Parade NYC Desfile Ecuatoriano Celebrates Ecuadorian Independence

Ecuadorian Parade NYC (Burt Johnson/Dreamstime)

ELMHURST, FOREST HILLS, FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens 🇪🇨

Bronx Dominican Parade es el Gran Parada Dominicana de el Bronx, Quisqueya

Bronx Dominican Parade (Jose Terrero/Dreamstime)

GRAND CONCOURSE, Concourse, Claremont, Mount Hope, The Bronx 🇩🇴

Festival Independencia Orgullo Colombiano Celebrates Colombian Independence in Flushing Meadows Corona Park

Festival Independencia Orgullo Colombiano (CamaraLucida1/Adobe)

NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens 🇨🇴

International Peruvian Festival is New York City’s Peruvian Independence Festival

International Peruvian Festival in Jackson Heights, Queens (Martyn Unsworth/Dreamstime)

QUEEN CORONATION ~ Corona, Queens 🇵🇪
PARADE ~ Jackson Heights, Queens 🇵🇪

Saint James The Greater is the Patron Saint of Spain, Antigua Guatemala, and Loíza Aldea Puerto Rico

Saint James the Greater, Met Cloisters from Miraflores Charterhouse (Public Domain/Metropolitan Museum of Art)

JULY 25 🇪🇸 🇬🇹 🇵🇷

Bastille Day in New York City

Bastille Day (Kovalenkov Petr/Dreamstime)

JULY 14, 1789

PARIS, France 🇫🇷

Cuban and Hispanic American Parade of New York

Cuban and Hispanic American Parade of New York (Diego Cervo/Adobe)

MADISON AVENUE, Murray Hill, Kips Bay, NoMad, Manhattan 🇨🇺

Manhattanhenge is a Spectacular Solar Alignment with Manhattan Cross Streets

Manhattanhenge on 42nd St (Mihai Andritoiu/Dreamstime)

MANHATTAN 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, 57th, and 79th St

Buck Moon is the July Full Moon

Buck Moon over New York City (David M. Sacerdote/Dreamstime)

MOTHER EARTH

L’Alliance Bastille Day Celebration is NYC’s Grand French Culture Street Fair, Oh là là

L'Alliance New York Bastille Day Celebration (Jose Terrero/Dreamstime)

MADISON AVENUE, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇫🇷

Our Lady of Chiquinquirá is the Patron Saint of Colombia

Our Lady of Chiquinquirá by Alonso de Narváez in 1562 (Basilica de Chiquinquirá, Colombia)

CHIQUINQUIRÁ, Boyacá, Colombia 🇨🇴

Giglio Feast at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Shrine Church is an Italian Street Fair Famous for Dancing the Giglio Tower

Giglio Feast, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Feast Williamsburg (Rebekah Burgess/Dreamstime)

SHRINE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 🇮🇹

Argentine Independence Day is Nueve de Julio!

Argentine Independence Day Casa Rosada Buenos Aires (eskystudio/Adobe)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina 🇦🇷

Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Returns to the Brooklyn Bridge and East River

Macy's 4th of July Fireworks on the East River (Potovs/Dreamstime

MANHATTAN Financial District, Two Bridges, Lower East Side
BROOKLYN Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO
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