Caiçaras
Caiçara on Cardoso island, São Paulo | |
| Languages | |
|---|---|
| Caiçara dialect | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Roman Catholic | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Paulistas, Portugueses and Brazilian indigenous |
Caiçaras (Portuguese pronunciation: [kajˈsaɾɐs]) are a people who inhabit the coastlines of the Brazilian states of Paraná, São Paulo and Santa Catarina, and the municipalities of Paraty and Angra dos Reis, in the south of Rio de Janeiro. They were formed from the intermixing of Indigenous, Africans and Portuguese people. The main basis of Caiçara culture is artisanal fishing, cultivation of small gardens, hunting, plant extraction and handicrafts.