The Afro community of Yurumangui comes together despite intimidations to celebrate the Manacillos festival every Holy Week, asserting their cultural resilience amid adversity.
During the festival, no one is allowed to work in the artisanal gold mines or the agricultural fields in the jungle, promoting unity and cultural remembrance.
The Manacillos hold profound spiritual significance, reaffirming their African roots and resisting colonialism and imposed Catholicism through syncretism, creating a new collective cultural identity.
In a context of geographic isolation and state neglect, the memory of slavery is alive, enabling the Yurumangui community to strengthen their ancestral traditions.
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