CROSS DAY
This celebration is held every year, on the day of the cross, a procession is made with the Virgen del Transito, to thank the fruits that are received an altar is made in the neighborhood La Cruz, and it is filled with fruits to thank God and the earth for the products it offers. The pastoral is part of the Catholic Church, in addition to rites laden with syncretism has participated as in many other towns in meetings or conventions of indigenous peoples in the case of the year 2000, was the seat of the fifth meeting of the Lenca peoples leaving as a memory cross that commemorates this date.
SAN SEBASTIAN MARTINA.
According to the tradition, he was captain of one of the cohorts of the Praetorian Guard. Despite this, he secretly professed Christianity and achieved many conversions. When the Roman emperor, Diocletian, knew his faith, he ordered his execution with arrows. Despite the seriousness of the injuries suffered, he did not die, and a Christian widow named Irene picked him up and cured his wounds. Within the framework of these 185 Celebrations is realized the election of the queens, as well as communal activities, in addition there is fair with sale of food and typical sweets.
FESTIVITIES
These are carried out in the month of July 20 to 25 of the same month, day in which el patron Santiago is celebrated, as people call it and is the most important in Conchagua, queens are elected who representatives of each sector, curiously to Conchagua it is not necessary the arrival of mechanical games to ensure the fun just arrive people who sale typical sweets and typical food of our country. In addition to sales of handicrafts, people from Conchagua like artists and craftsmen take advantage of the party to sell their products.
The most decorated in these parties is the church that in the framework of these, through the indigenous pastoral.
EASTER
The Greater Week, is a very important Catholic celebration at national level, in Conchagua, it does not stop being less important, the parishioners are included in all the celebrations and processions, beginning with the Sunday of the routes the route from the Calvary neighborhood, as a penance, people walk through a sloping street that leads to the chapel in the same neighborhood, from the height you can see the roofs of the houses, from that neighborhood begins the walk with the Christ on the mule. Later, we wait for the precession of silence where only men attend, to wait on Holy Friday with the procession of the way of the cross, culminating with a vigil on Saturday of glory to wait for the resurrection Sunday.
FESTIVAL OF THE EARTH
Every year in Conchagua the festival of the land is commemorated, a feast that includes all the agricultural sector of the city as well as its cantons, this is organized jointly by several communal institutions, people gather to thank for the fruits of the mother earth, carrying various products as a result of planting, this festival takes place on August 27th. In addition, a queen of this festival is chosen, currently is Mrs. Amanda Ponce, this is an adult person as a symbol of mother earth, the Pachamama ..
SANTIAGO APOSTOL
James the Greater (? -c.44 AD), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ. He was born in Bethsaida and was the son of Zebedee and Salome and brother of St. John the Evangelist. Jesus called the two brothers boanerges (from the Greek, "sons of thunder") for their zeal (Mark 3,17). With Saint Peter and Saint John, James had the privilege of contemplating the transfiguration and the agony of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. Decapitated in the 187s.