Nearly 20,000 people take part in the Tomatino Festival of Colombia

Tomatino Festival is into its 10th year and nearly 20,000 people joined in the event held in Sutamarchan in located in the country's Boyaca state. This is a spring festival and the locals join the tourists from far and wide to throw spoiled fruit at one another. In the festival, over 100 tonnes of tomatoes are chucked and, thousands of T-shirts get ruined.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 6 June 2016.

Incidentally, this region has the highest yield of tomatoes and, every spring people participate in the event to throw bad and rotten tomatoes at one another. It is a three-day celebration and is centered entirely around tomatoes. For variety, many people participate in tomato-eating contests and even a race to locate the largest of the fruit.
The celebration is inspired by another festival of the same name near Valencia in Spain and it is held 75 miles northeast of Bogota. It seems in 2014 an estimated 125 tonnes of tomatoes were hurled through the streets.


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