Brazilians call this holiday eve "Reveillon"; that's when small boats are launched to honor the sea goddess Yemanja
The festival goes on each night until Christmas Eve, 
when it is .... small boats loaded with trinkets into the ocean, in offering to the sea 
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they ever call their city Rio  they simply refer to it as a ...... not Carnaval but 
Reveillon, or New Year's Eve.