Contests
- Adult Murgas Contest: The main contest in the Carnival, where murgas sing the best of their repertoire; the audience camps at the box office to get good seats
- Kids' Murgas Contest: A younger version of the adult murgas contest, in which participants are under 18 years
- Music groups: Groups perform Caribbean musical rhythms
- Groups of the Third Age: Oriented toward Canary Island folklore (the "third age")
- Rondalla and Cluster Lyric Contest: Held in the Teatro Guimerá or Auditorio de Tenerife, the contest is a cultural part of the Carnival interpreting Spanish poetry, opera and zarzuela (Spanish opera).
- Adult Choreography Competition: Amateurs mount choreography as if for a ballet
- Kid's Choreography Competition: Children's version of the adult choreography contest
- Adult Comparsas: Awards presentation and choreography on stage
- Kid's Comparsas: Children's version of the adult comparsas
- Rhythm and Harmony: Where the comparasas demonstrates its talent, parading and dancing to the beat of the batucada on the Avenida Anaga
- Competition floats
- The Song of Laughter (La canción de la Risa): Since 2005, its purpose is to reward the song and staging more fun created for the occasion. Held at the Teatro Guimerá, its first edition was won by Los Hijos de Buda with an ironic song about the Spanish royal family.
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