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In Sri Lanka, the names Mestiços (Portuguese for "Mixed People") or Casados ("Married") referred to people of mixed Portuguese and Sri Lankan (Sinhalese and Tamil) descent. The names can be traced back to the 16th century. History The first mestiços descended from Portuguese explorers, soldiers and merchants who reached Sri Lanka after the pioneering voyage of Vasco da Gama. When the Dutch took over coastal Sri Lanka, the descendants of the mestiços took refuge in the central hills of Kandyan Kingdom under Sinhalese rule. By the middle of the 18th century, the descendants of the mestiços had partly merged with descendants of the Dutch, giving rise to the a Eurasian community (a mixture of Portuguese, Dutch, Sinhalese and Tamil), known as the Burghers. Some of these people spoke Portuguese, others spoke Dutch. Later, the Burgher community developed into two different communities: the Dutch Burghers and the Portuguese Burghers. The Portuguese presence in Sri Lank...

For other uses, see Pardo (disambiguation). Pardo is a term used in the Portuguese and Spanish colonies in the Americas to refer to the triracial descendants of Europeans, Indigenous Americans, and West Africans. They are defined as neither exclusively mestizo (Indigenous American-European descent), nor mulatto (West African-European descent), nor zambo (West African-Indigenous American descent). [1] It is highly associated with the history of slavery and colonialism. [ citation needed ] From the 18th century, the term has been used more widely to identify a brown skin colour. [ citation needed ] But in general use, the physical characteristics may include brown skin ranging from dark brown to almost white. [ citation needed ] Similarly, the person's hair could be curly, straight, or other texture, and any colour. [ citation needed ] In Brazil, the word pardo has had a general meaning, since the beginning of the colonization. In the famous letter by Pero Vaz de Caminha, for e...