in rio, the most famous candomblé veneration is the festa de iemanjá, a very compelling and rich ceremony also shared by umbanda believers - it is very common for catholics to offers flowers to iemanjá during this commemoration, a very clear example of carioca syncretism.

many adherents consider umbanda a religion born in rio de janeiro in 1908, as blending of catholicism, spiritualism, and of african deities (orixás).