¡Viva Oviedo! brings thousands to Center Lake Park

First-of-its-kind ¡Viva Oviedo! event danced the night away with music, Latin food and more.

The first ¡Viva Oviedo! festival brought thousands of revelers who braved threatening skies to see Tito Puente Jr. and a slew of other Hispanic entertainers on Oct. 19. The event spanned the breadth of Center Lake Park with multiple stages, a dance floor, cultural and historic areas and a play area for children.

The event paid tribute to Oviedo’s sister city of Oviedo in the cool, mountainous Asturias region of northern Spain, while drawing attention to the thriving Hispanic community in the Oviedo area and in broader Seminole County.

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Isaac creates editorial plans, working closely with the community to identify issues that affect people’s everyday lives. He is OCN’s resident photojournalist.

He is a longtime local journalist and former managing editor of the Seminole Voice. His work has been featured in Golfweek magazine, the New York Times and Jalopnik. He has won more than a dozen Florida Press Association and Society of Professional Journalists awards and contributed to award-winning, in-depth work for the NPR member station 90.7 WMFE.

Isaac holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Central Florida’s Nicholson School of Communication and Media, and may be best known for his many roles in the annual Oviedo Cemetery Tour. He enjoys hiking, running, sailing, motorcycling, modifying cars, inventing things, baking and going on adventures into forests and up snowy mountains with his family.