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caboclo
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Also known as caboco, mameluco, cariboca, curiboca

thumb|right|150px|Sculpture showing the birth of a caboclo

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thumb|right|150px|Sculpture showing the birth of a caboclo

A caboclo () is a person of mixed Indigenous Brazilian and European ancestry, or, less commonly, a culturally assimilated or detribalized person of full Amerindian descent. In Brazil, a caboclo generally refers to this specific type of mestiço.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “caboclo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.