Similar Pan-American Cultural Practices
- Second Line Parades and Ruberos groups - Cuba
- Escolas de Samba, Capoeira - Brazil
- Rara - Haiti
- 19th Century Jametta Carnival - Trinidad
- Jokonnu - West Indies
- Sociedad de las Congas - Panama
- L’agya - Martinique
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