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- The three days of festivities preceding Lent, characterized by costumes, masks, drinking, music, and dancing.
Spain's most colorful carnival is in Santa Cruz, Tenerife, and Cadiz's carnival is also famous. In Spanish-speaking Latin America, the carnivals of Uruguay, Bolivia, and Venezuela are very well known.
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- Hispanoamérica is a generic term that includes all countries of Central and South America, where Spanish is (officially) spoken. There are nineteen states in total:Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, Puerto Rico, República Dominicana, Uruguay and Venezuela. In contrast, the collective term Latinoamérica (or América Latina) applies to all those countries of Central and South America that were colonised by the Spaniards, Portugese and French.
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