Carioca
Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Carioca is a Portuguese adjective or demonym word that refers to the metropolitan area of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The original word "Kara'i oca" comes from the indigenous Amerindian language of the Tupi people, meaning "White Man's House". It is said that the first Portuguese dwellings in Rio de Janeiro were placed along a limpid stream, which soon got the Portuguese name "Carioca". The last PNAD (National Research for Sample of Domiciles) census numbers for the state of Rio de Janeiro are: 6,278,704 White people (53.6%), 3,935,904 Pardo people (33.6%), 1,440,822 Black people (12.3%) and 58,000 Asian or Amerindian people (0.5%). Cariocas,...
ISBN: 978-6-1305-6910-5
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Дата выхода: июль 2011