the festival features stalls preparing dishes featuring mandioca as well as other types of brazilian specialty foods - competitions with categories such as largest mandioca root and best mandioca dish take place offering cash prizes for winners, with live music and concerts starting late in the evening after other the other events take place.

macaé also plays host to the encontro nacional de motociclistas, or the national meeting of motorcyclists, typically held at the end of november every year since 2000, at praia dos cavaleiros and attracting upwards of 50,000 attendees - fittingly, the popular motorcyclist convention also features plenty of live rock-and-roll music performed by regional bands, as well as stunt shows such as the globe of death.