Caboclo
For other uses, see Caboclo (disambiguation). Statues showing the birth of a Caboclo. A caboclo ( Portuguese pronunciation: [kɐˈboklu] , also pronounced "caboco"; from Brazilian Portuguese, perhaps ultimately from Tupi kaa'boc , means a "person having copper-coloured skin" [1] ) (English: cabloke) is a person of mixed Indigenous Brazilian and European ancestry (the first, most common use), or a culturally assimilated person of full Amerindian descent. In Brazil, a caboclo generally refers to this specific type of mestiço . A person of mixed Indigenous Brazilian and sub-Saharan black ancestry is known as a " cafuzo ". In the 1872 and 1890 censuses, 3.90% and 9.04% of the population self-identified as caboclos, respectively. Since then, caboclos are counted as pardos, along with mulattoes (mixed Black-White) and cafuzos (mixed Amerindian-Black). [2] A survey performed in Rio de Janeiro showed that 14% of Whites and 6% of Pardos reported a mixed Amerin...