quilombo community

thumb|Brazilian quilombolas during a meeting in [[Brasília, 2007]] thumb|A quilombo in Amapá

A quilombo (; from the Kimbundu word , ) is a Brazilian hinterland settlement founded by people of African origin, and others sometimes called Carabali. Most of the inhabitants of quilombos, called quilombolas, were maroons, a term for escaped slaves. Documentation about refugee slave communities typically uses the term mocambo for settlements, which is an Ambundu word meaning "war camp". A mocambo is typically much smaller than a quilombo. Quilombo was not used until the 1670s, primarily in the more southerly parts of Brazil. In Colombia, such villages or camps were called . Its inhabitants are . They spoke various Spanish-African-based creole languages such as Palenquero.