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Argentina
1 January - New Year's Day
24 March - Día Nacional de la Memoria por la Verdad y la Justicia (ley 26.085)
2 April - Día del Veterano y de los Caídos en la Guerra de Malvinas (ley 26.110)
variable date - Maundy Thursday
variable date - Good Friday
1 May - Labour Day
25 May - Anniversary of the May Revolution
20 June(next Mon after) - Paso a la Inmortalidad del General Manuel Belgrano
9 July - Anniversary of the Argentine Declaration of Independence
17 August(next Mon after) - Paso a la Inmortalidad del General José de San Martín
12 October(next Mon after) - Día de la Raza
8 December - Inmaculada Concepción de María
25 December - Christmas Day

Brazil
1 January - New Year's Day
47 days before Easter - Carnival
Variable dates - Good Friday
Variable dates - Easter
21 April - Tiradentes
1 May - Labour Day
Variable dates - Corpus Christi
7 September - Independence Day
12 October - Our Lady Aparecida or Children's Day
2 November - Finados
15 November - Proclamation of the Republic
24 December - Christmas Eve
25 December - Christmas Day

2010 variable holidays:
February 15-17 - Carnival
2 April - Paixão de Cristo
4 April - Easter
3 June - Corpus Christi

Chile
1 January - New Year's Day
March/April - Good Friday
March/April - Holy Saturday
1 May - Labour Day
21 May - Navy Day
29 June - Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
16 July - Our Lady of Mount Carmel
15 August - Assumption of Mary
18 September - Independence Day
19 September - Glories of the Army Day
12 October - Columbus Day
31 October - Reformation Day
1 November - All Saints
8 December - Immaculate Conception
25 December - Christmas Day

Colombia
1 January - New Year's Day
8 January - Epiphany
19 March - Saint Joseph's Day
Holy Thursday, and Good Friday - variable dates
1 May - Labour Day
21 May - Ascension Day
Corpus Christi Day - variable dates
3 June 2010; 23 June 2011, 7 June 2012,
30 May 2013, 19 June 2014, 4 June 2015
Sacred Heart Day - variable dates (19 days after Pentecost)
2 July - Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
20 July - Independence Day
7 August - Battle of Boyaca's Day
15 August - Assumption Day
12 October - Columbus Day
5 November - All Saint's Day
8 December - Immaculate Conception Day
25 December - Christmas Day

Costa Rica
1 January - New Year's Day
11 April - Battle of Rivas Day
Holy Thursday, and Good Friday - variable dates
1 May - Labour Day
25 July - Guanacaste Day
2 August - Virgen de los Angeles Day
15 August - Mother's Day
15 September - Independence Day
12 October - Meeting of Cultures Day
24 December - Christmas Eve
25 December - Christmas Day

Dominican Republic
1 January - New Year's Day
6 January - Dia de Reyes (Epiphany)
21 January - Dia de la Altagracia
26 January - Duarte Day (Juan Pablo Duarte)
27 February - Independence Day
21 March - Viernes Santo
1 May - Labor Day and Ascension Day
22 May - Corpus Christi
16 August - Dia de la Restauracion
24 September - Dia de las Mercedes
6 November - Constitution Day
5 December - Discovery Day
24 December - Christmas Eve
25 December - Christmas Day

Guatemala
1 January - New Year's Day
March or April - Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday
26 April - Secretary's Day Only Secretaries
1 May - Labour Day, May Day
10 May - Mother's Day
17 June - Father's Day
30 June - Army Day
15 August - Assumption of Mary (Guatemala City only)
15 September - Independence Day
20 October - Revolution Day
1 November - All Saint's Day
24 December - Christmas Eve
25 December - Christmas Day
31 December - New Year's Eve

Honduras
1 January - New Year’s Day
3 February - Day of the Virgin of Suyapa
March or April - Good Friday, Easter, Easter Monday
14 April - Day of the Americas
1 May - Labour Day
10 September - International day of the children
15 September - Independence Day
3 October - Morazán Day
12 October - Columbus Day
21 October - Armed Forces Day
24 December - Christmas Eve
25 December - Christmas Day

Mexico
Public holidays
1 January - New Year's Day
6 January- Three Kings' Day
5 February - Día de la Constitución
21 March - Natalicio de Benito Juárez
1 May - Día del Trabajo
5 May - Battle of Puebla
16 September - Día de Independencia (Mexican independence day)
1 November–2 - Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead)
20 November - Día de la Revolución
25 December - Christmas Day

Religious holidays
Maundy Thursday - Thursday before Easter Sunday
Good Friday - Friday before Easter Sunday
12 December - Our Lady of Guadalupe's day
24 December - Christmas Eve
25 December - Christmas Day

Panama
1 January - New Year's Day
9 January - Martyr's Day (Dia de los Martires)
Day Before Ash Wednesday - Mardi Gras
March or April - Good Friday
1 May - Labor Day
3 November - Separation (Colombia)
4 November - Flag Day
5 November - Colon
10 November - Grito de Independencia
28 November - Independence (Spain)
8 December - Mother's Day
25 December - Christmas Day
The date the Elected-President starts in office
(Presidential Inauguration Day)

Peru
1 January - New Year
Easter - Good Friday, Easter Sunday
1 May - Labour Day
29 June - Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
28 July, 29 July - Independence Day
30 August - Saint Rose of Lima
8 October - Naval Battle of Angamos
1 November - All Saints' Day
8 December - Immaculate Conception
24 December - Christmas Eve
25 December - Christmas Day

Puerto Rico
All the same national holidays of the U.S.A., plus:
6 January - (Dia de Reyes, or Three Kings Day)
Second Monday in January - Birth of Eugenio María de Hostos
Good Friday
Third Monday in April - Birth of Jose de Diego (poet, journalist, politician, and orator. Was co-founder of Unionist Party).
22 May - (Abolition of Slavery in P.R.)
Third Monday in July - Birth of Luis Muñoz Rivera (political leader,author, journalist, organized the Federal Party and the Unionist Party of Puerto Rico. Was Resident Commissioner in Washington, where he fought to earn U.S. citizenship for Puerto Ricans).
25 July - Estado Libre Asociado Constitution Day
27 July - Birth of Jose Celso Barbosa (physician, senator, author, journalist, politician, founder of the pro-statehood Republican Party)
19 November - Discovery Day - Commemorates the discovery of the island by Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the New World

Spain
January 1 New Year's Day.
January 6 Epiphany.
Week Before Easter Semana Santa - the later in the week you get, the more likely things will be closed - with Thursday, Friday and Sunday the most affected. Easter Monday is not a public holiday, except in Catalonia and Valencia.
May 1 Workers' Day.
August 15 Assumption of the Virgin.
October 12 National Day.
November 1 All Saints' Day
December 6 Constitution Day
December 8 Immaculate Conception
December 24 Navidad. Christmas Eve (Night) is far more important than Christmas Day in Spain. Shops may close early on Christmas Eve, though most will be open in the morning. Read more about Christmas in Spain.

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