The Coso Apoteosis del Carnaval Tenerife (Carnival Main Parade) in Santa Cruz de Tenerife is usually held on Shrove Tuesday, which was Tuesday, February 21st, 2012. An avalanche of color, rhythm and joy that people can enjoy for the second time in this Carnival, after the announcing Parade, and that brings together a multitude of people who, in the case of visitors, are ecstatic at the atmosphere that is breathed, since each group offers the best of their dances, their music, their lyrics, their costumes, their imagination and rhythm.