Pinga (disambiguation)
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Pinga or Pingas may refer to:
Beverages
Mythology
People
Television
Other
Beverages
- CachaçaCachaçaCachaça is a liquor made from fermented sugarcane.It is the most popular distilled alcoholic beverage in Brazil. It is also known as aguardente, pinga, caninha and many other names...
, a distilled sugarcane beverage popular in Brazil. Pingas is the term used primarily in São Paulo and other parts of Southern Brazil.
Mythology
- PingaPingaIn Inuit mythology, Pinga was a goddess of the hunt, fertility and medicine. She was also the psychopomp, bringing souls of the newly-dead to Adlivun, the underworld....
, an Inuit goddess of the hunt, fertility and medicine.
People
- José Lázaro RoblesJosé Lázaro RoblesJosé Lázaro Robles, best known as Pinga was a Brazilian footballer.He was born in São Paulo. During his career he played for Juventus, Portuguesa and Vasco da Gama, where played 466 matches from 1953 to 1962 and scoring 250 goals...
, Brazilian footballer - Jorge Luis da Silva BrumJorge Luis da Silva BrumJorge Luis da Silva Brum, best known as Pinga is a former Brazilian footballer in central-lateral defender role....
, Brazilian footballer - André Luciano da Silva, Brazilian footballer
- Artur de Sousa PingaArtur de Sousa PingaArtur de Sousa, known for his nickname Pinga was a footballer and later coach who made his name in FC Porto, club he served until his death in 1963....
, Portuguese footballer
Television
- Pinga is the younger sister of PinguPinguPingu is a British-Swiss stop-motion claymated television series created by Otmar Gutmann. The series was produced by The Pygos Group and Trickfilmstudio for Swiss television. The show is about a family of anthropomorphic penguins at the South Pole. The main character is the family's son and title...
on the eponymous Swiss children's stop-motion cartoon series.
Other
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and the Canary IslandsCanary IslandsThe Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
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