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Pics: Rio de Janeiro's samba schools vie for title at Carnival

Thousands of dancers streamed through the Sambadrome in elaborate costumes kitted out with headdresses depicting creatures like ant eaters, armadillos and snakes.

SAMBA SCHOOLS IN Rio De Janeiro vied for the title of the year’s best dancers at the all night Carnival parade at the city’s Sambadrome.

Thousands of dancers streamed through the Sambadrome in elaborate costumes kitted out with headdresses depicting local fauna in Cuiaba, like ant eaters, armadillos and snakes.

The Sambadrome parades are the highlight of Rio’s six-daylong Carnival extravaganza, which also includes hundreds of block parties which attract hundreds of thousands of costumed revelers.

The results of the contest will be announced later in the week and Carnival wraps up for the year tomorrow.

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    A performer from the Mangueira samba school parades during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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    Performers from the Mangueira samba school parade during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar).
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    A performer from the Unidos de Vila Isabel samba school (AP Photo/Felipe Dana).
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    Performers from the Unidos de Vila Isabel samba school parade (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar).
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    Performers from the Unidos de Vila Isabel samba school parade (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo).
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    Performers from the Unidos de Vila Isabel samba school (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar).
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    A performer from the Unidos de Vila Isabel samba school (AP Photo/Felipe Dana).
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    A performer from the Unidos de Vila Isabel samba school parades during Carnival celebrations (AP Photo/Felipe Dana).
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    Performers from the Unidos de Vila Isabel samba school parade during Carnival celebrations (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar).
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    Performers from the Mangueira samba school parade during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar).
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    Performers from the Unidos de Vila Isabel samba school parade (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar).
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    Performers from the Imperatriz Leopoldinense samba school parade on a float (AP Photo/Felipe Dana).
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    Performers from the Unidos de Vila Isabel samba school parade during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar).
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    Drum queen Cris Vianna from the Imperatriz Leopoldinense samba school parade (AP Photo/Felipe Dana).
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    Drum queen Sabrina Sato from the Unidos de Vila Isabel samba school parades during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome (AP Photo/Felipe Dana).

- Additional reporting from Associated Press.

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    Mute Derek Larney
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    Feb 12th 2013, 7:30 PM

    The Carnival is like a photographers dream, the place is absolutely awash with colour. Rio always gets the plaudits but the carnivals in Salvador, Bahia and Florinapolis are just as big and colourful.

    The organisers of our St.Patrick’s Day parades would do well to take a look at it and take inspiration. Watching tacky floats with advertisements for butchers and book shops doesn’t hold a match to how they do a parade in Brazil. I’ve nothing against local businesses, I just want to see a good show.

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    Mute Muriel Gowing
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    Feb 12th 2013, 11:33 PM

    True, but it doesn’t rain in Brazil like it does here. Imagine all that South American finery soaked in cold rain. The colours wouldn’t look so bright on a grey Irish day or a dark misty Irish night. I think we do very well considering our climate.

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    Mute Matthew Fitzpatrick
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    Feb 12th 2013, 6:06 PM

    Dem’s wharri call wimmins

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    Feb 12th 2013, 6:18 PM

    Looks like an amazing show!

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    Feb 12th 2013, 7:12 PM

    And we raven about st Patrick !!!!

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    Mute JayK
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    Feb 12th 2013, 9:07 PM

    Never more.

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    Feb 12th 2013, 6:05 PM

    Cover up ladies, youll catch you death out there.

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