In Briceño, a young municipality in the north of Antioquia, the Water Festival (Fiestas del Agua), the town's main festival, is celebrated every year between the end of June and the beginning of July.
 
For a week the municipality is filled with music, sports competitions, cultural exhibitions and parades. Local artists and guests of national stature liven up the party with live concerts in the main square of Briceño.
 

During the second long weekend of November, the Tetoná and Return Festivals (Fiestas del Tetoná y del Retorno) take place in Yalí, named in honor of one of the hills that surround the town and which give rise to its nickname “the city of the hills.”
 
During the long weekend, Yaliseños can enjoy different activities such as shawm and troupe festivals, horseback riding, entrepreneurship fairs where local farmers, artisans and small and medium-sized businesses can exhibit and sell their products, in addition to, of course, music in I live with special guests.

Since colonial times, the northeast of Antioquia was known for its prosperous economy based on gold mining that made towns such as Remedios, Zaragoza and Segovia some of the richest in the region. 

To honor this tradition, which has largely forged the regional identity, the Gold and Mining Festivals (Fiesta del Oro y La Minería) are celebrated annually in the municipality of Segovia, normally during the third week of July.
 

Since colonial times, when Santa Fe was the main city and capital of the province of Antioquia, the festival known as “Los Diablitos” has been celebrated there during the last week of the year.
 
This celebration has its origin in the slave population of the region who, taking advantage of their day of rest, disguised themselves with masks to avoid being recognized and took advantage of their anonymity to play jokes on the town's residents. 

In this sense, the name does not come from the devil in its religious sense but in its meaning of mischievous.
 

In mid-August, on the festive long weekend of the festival of the Assumption of the Virgin, in Santa Fé de Antioquia the Tamarindo Festival (Fiesta del Tamarindo) is celebrated, with which the inhabitants of the municipality pay tribute to this characteristic fruit of the region.
 

Since 1995, on the Cry of Independence festival on July 20, Santa Fé de Antioquia celebrates Classic Bicycle Day (Día de la Bicicleta), an open-air celebration that attracts a large number of participants and attendees both within the municipality and from abroad. places in Antioquia and Colombia to enjoy a day of exercise and the beautiful colonial architecture of Santa Fé de Antioquia.
 

Between the end of October and the beginning of November, on the festive weekend of All Saints, in the municipality of Santo Domingo in the northeast of Antioquia, the Chalán and Livestock Festivals (Fiestas del Chalan y La Ganadería )are celebrated.
 
These festivities have a varied program in which animals are the protagonists. Since Halloween normally falls during the week of these holidays, there are costume parades and costumed pet parades, perfect activities to enjoy with the family. Deworming sessions are also carried out for both pets and horses and cattle.

At the end of June, during the festivals of San Pedro and San Pablo, Anorí pays tribute to its roots with the Farmer and Miner Festivals, with which the municipality celebrates its agricultural vocation and the gold mining that characterizes the entire northeast. Antioquian.
 
The festivals include a peasant market where local farmers can sell their typical products such as cocoa, cassava, coffee, panela and other sugar cane derivatives.

During the festive long weekend of the festival of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Anorí, a municipality with great water wealth in the northeast of Antioquia, the Antioqueñidad Festivals “Anorí se Viste de Antioquia” are celebrated, with which the Anoriseños pay tribute to the culture of your department.
 
The festivities include a varied cultural, musical and sports programme.

On July 16, the Feast of the Virgin of Mount Carmel (Fiestas De La Virgen Del Carmen) is celebrated in Amalfi, one of the most popular celebrations in the religious calendar, not only in this municipality but throughout the country. During this day the drivers pay tribute to their patron saint.

Trucks, dump trucks, buses, taxis and private cars parade through the roads and streets of the town beautifully decorated with blue, white and gold balloons, flowers and images of the Virgin Mary, sounding their horns, as is tradition on these dates throughout the whole country. Colombia.