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A caboclo (or caboco, from Tupi kaa'boc, 'who came from forest') is a term used in Brazil describing a person of mixed Brazilian Amerindian
Indigenous peoples in Brazil

The Indigenous peoples in Brazil comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country prior to the arrival of Europeans around 1500....
 and European
White people

White people is a term which is usually used to refer to Human characterized, at least in part, by the light Human skin color. It often refers narrowly to people claiming ancestry exclusively from Europe....
 descent. In Brazil, a caboclo is a specific type of mestiço
Mestizo

Mestizo is a Spanish language term that was used in the Spanish Empire to refer to people of mixed Europe and Indigenous peoples of the Americas ancestry in Latin America....
.

There was a wave of caboclos created during the time of rubber soldiers, when young, primarily white Brazilian men were taken from North-Eastern Brazil
Northeast Region, Brazil

The Northeast Region is composed of the following states: Maranh?o, Piau?, Cear?, Rio Grande do Norte, Para?ba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia, and it represents 18.26% of the Brazilian territory....
 and brought into the Amazonian interior to harvest rubber
Rubber

Natural rubber is an elastomer?an Elasticity_ hydrocarbon polymer?that was originally derived from a milky colloidal suspension, or latex , found in the sap of some plants....
.






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A caboclo (or caboco, from Tupi kaa'boc, 'who came from forest') is a term used in Brazil describing a person of mixed Brazilian Amerindian
Indigenous peoples in Brazil

The Indigenous peoples in Brazil comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country prior to the arrival of Europeans around 1500....
 and European
White people

White people is a term which is usually used to refer to Human characterized, at least in part, by the light Human skin color. It often refers narrowly to people claiming ancestry exclusively from Europe....
 descent. In Brazil, a caboclo is a specific type of mestiço
Mestizo

Mestizo is a Spanish language term that was used in the Spanish Empire to refer to people of mixed Europe and Indigenous peoples of the Americas ancestry in Latin America....
.

There was a wave of caboclos created during the time of rubber soldiers, when young, primarily white Brazilian men were taken from North-Eastern Brazil
Northeast Region, Brazil

The Northeast Region is composed of the following states: Maranh?o, Piau?, Cear?, Rio Grande do Norte, Para?ba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia, and it represents 18.26% of the Brazilian territory....
 and brought into the Amazonian interior to harvest rubber
Rubber

Natural rubber is an elastomer?an Elasticity_ hydrocarbon polymer?that was originally derived from a milky colloidal suspension, or latex , found in the sap of some plants....
. The men were never granted permission to leave, and thus married locally.

Interestingly, the traditional caboclo populations in the Amazon
Amazon Basin

The Amazon Basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The basin is located mainly in Brazil, but also stretches into Peru and several other countries....
 region of Brazil are noted as voracious eaters of the açaí palm fruit. In one study, açaí palm was described as the most important plant species because the fruit makes up such a major component of diet (up to 42% of the total food intake by weight) and is economically valuable in the region (Murrieta et al., 1999).

The "Day of Caboclo" (Dia do Caboclo), on June 24, is an official date of the State of Amazonas.

The term caboco is also used as an alternate term for the Orishas of the Candomblé
Candomblé

Candombl? is an African-originated or Afro-Brazilian religion, practiced chiefly in Brazil. The religion largely originated in the city of Salvador, the capital of Bahia....
 religion.

In anthropology, the term "caboclo" has been criticized as too vague and prejudgmental for scientific use.

See also

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    Mixed Race Day

    Mixed Race Day, June 27, is a reference in Brazil to the twenty-seven mixed race representatives elected during the 1st Conference for the Promotion of Racial Equality, which occurred in the city of Manaus, Amazonas , Brazil, from April 7 to 9, 2005, and also to the month of June, in which a mixed race woman, after systematic opposition from...


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