Meeting of the Waters, jaguar and tucumã: carnival revelers bet on references to the Amazon

Marcela Leiros – From Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS – Carnival is an opportunity to extrapolate the creativity. That’s when revelers take the opportunity to use and abuse of sparkles, sequins and paints, being inspired by characters and even “memes”. With the Amazonians it was no different, as some chose to make reference to the Amazon region.

This is the case of manauara Eduarda Coelho, the @mescoelhinho. On Twitter, the journalism student showed how she combined the costume alluding to the Amazon River, in Manaus, with her boyfriend. With an outfit half light brown and half dark brown, a reference to the Solimões River and Negro River, respectively, she was inspired by the hydrological phenomenon known as the Meeting of the Waters.

“When people from Para get to know the Meeting of the Waters they fall in love, there’s no way,” she published, showing the outfit that also had images of boats and a pink river dolphin.

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To CENARIUM MAGAZINE, Eduarda said that the inspiration came from a trend (trend) in which a woman dressed up as the Statue of Liberty, the monument located in New York in the United States. However, as a northerner, she did not identify with the costume and decided to regionalize it.

“I thought about how I could reproduce a version that contemplated our tourist attractions, and I got to the Meeting of the Waters, because it was extremely symbolic and something that I could do hours before the block. I decided to put some images of the dolphins, the little boats that circulate there, and the plaque used by my boyfriend referring to the river, the northern couple combo”, she explained.

The influencer Larissa Saldanha also took advantage of Carnaval to pay tribute to a very well-known animal in the Amazon: the jaguar. It took five hours of body painting. The production was done by the influencer’s husband, tattoo artist Jefferson Negrão. “This was the result after five hours of painting me. What do you think about this result? I’m freaked out about the result,” she said on Instagram.

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From Manaus, Sales Souza and his girlfriend, Giovana Gomes, wore small signs referring to the Amazon cuisine and fauna. One of the signs said “Tucumã” and the other “Cadê o tucumã da minha tapioca? Another inspiration was a much feared fish found in the Amazon, the piranha. The plaque used by Giovana said “Caiu na rede é…”, while Sales’ was made with “Piranha”.