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The Voodoo celebration in Souvenance begins on Good Friday, and continues for a week. Every year hundreds of people assemble this tiny village . It is one of the holiest pilgrimages for believers in voodoo. Souvenance is located between Gonaïves and Cap-Haïtien, about 20km north of Gonaïves.Voodoo was brought to Haiti by slaves from West Africa, but did not become a recognised religion by the Caribbean country until the 1960s.