2026 theme
MangangáAncestral Utopia
Since 1992 the white boi with the green star has taken Coaban to the arena of the Benjamin Constant Folk Festival.
The future lives in those who came before
Mangangá looks back in order to dream forward: the peoples of the Upper Solimões, the fisherman of alley 50 and the world the forest still promises.
“Utopia is not in the future. It was lived before us, on the bank of this river, and the white boi with the green star returns to the arena to remember the way.”
The curral never stops
Who brings Mangangá to life in the arena
The 2026 season album, recorded for the Ancestral Utopia theme.
What the green crowd sings
Latest from the Besouro
Community ·
Mangangá opens sign-ups for 2026 season performers
Dancers, musicians and artists of all ages can sign up on the website or at the curral, on alley 50.
Backstage ·
Marujada de Guerra resumes rehearsals at the curral
The Mangangá drum line plays again on Wednesdays, with an open workshop for newcomers.
Festival ·
The 2026 theme is unveiled to the green crowd
Ancestral Utopia: the white boi with the green star goes back to those who came before to dream what comes next.
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From alley 50 to the arena
Created by a fisherman in the street forrós of Coaban, Mangangá became the festival's top champion and part of the cultural trilogy of Benjamin Constant.
1992
Born on alley 50
Fisherman Raimundo Dimas, of northeastern Brazilian origin, creates the boi on alley 50 in the Coaban neighbourhood, the Javarizinho.
1990s
From street forró to the whole town
What starts as fun in the street forrós wins the neighbourhood and then the heart of Benjamin Constant.
2000s
The Besouro reaches the arena
The boi starts competing in the Benjamin Constant Folk Festival and begins collecting the titles that make it the top champion.
2022
Thirty years of the green star
Three decades after alley 50, Mangangá is an official part of the municipal cultural trilogy.
2026
Ancestral Utopia
The season theme goes back to the peoples of the Upper Solimões and the roots of the boi to dream the future.
The party that stops the border
July nights at the bumbódromo, with crowds from Benjamin Constant, Islandia in Peru and Leticia in Colombia.
- What is a boi-bumbá?A popular celebration that tells, with dance, music and floats, the boi play: the story of the ox that dies and comes back to life. In the Amazon it absorbed the legends, the Indigenous peoples and the river, and became an arena spectacle.
- How does the judging work?Each boi performs on the festival nights and a jury scores the items in three groups: musical, scenic and choreographic, and artistic. The sum of the scores decides the champion, announced at the vote count.
- Who is the cunhã-poranga?In Nheengatu, "beautiful girl". The item that represents the beauty and strength of the Amazonian Indigenous woman, guardian of the forest.
Be part of the green crowd
Dance, drum, sew, build floats or help backstage. The boi is made by the community, and there is room for you.
- Artists and performers
- Dancers of all ages, Marujada de Guerra musicians, float actors and visual artists.
- Supporters and volunteers
- The magic also happens backstage: organisation, sewing, transport, communication and cooking.