In the daytime of the Festival, performances such as a dragon lantern dance, a lion dance, a land boat dance, a yangge dance, walking on stilts and beating drums while dancing will be staged.
By the sixteenth century, the Incas of South America ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands from what is now Ecuador to central Chile.
It measured 9.5 on the Richter scale and triggered a tsunami that swept across the Pacific Ocean, killing scores of people in Hawaii, Japan and elsewhere.
It is currently estimated that at least 2, 000 are dead and missing after Friday's earthquake unleashed a vicious tsunami that swept Japan's northern Pacific coast.
During the Gold Rush he steered his steamships single-handedly through Nicaraguan river rapids to find a way to get his passengers more quickly and cheaply to the Pacific Ocean.
The satellite continued through the Atlantic south toward Africa, but it was unlikely the satellite got that far if it started falling over the Pacific.