Carioca
Carioca ( or ) is a demonym used to refer to anything related to the City of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. The original meaning of the term is controversial, maybe from Tupi language "''kari' oka''", meaning "white house" as the whitewashed stone ...
is a name for the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro.
Carioca may also refer to:
People
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Tahiya Carioca (1925-1999), Egyptian actress and dancer
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Marcelinho Carioca
Marcelo Pereira Surcin (born 1 February 1971), known as Marcelinho Carioca, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He was noted for his accuracy from free-kicks, having scored 80 free kick goals in ...
(born 1971), born ''Marcelo Pereira Surcin'', Brazilian football attacking midfielder
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Carioca (footballer, born 1974), born ''Alexander Antonio Viana'', Brazilian football forward
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Jean Carioca (footballer, born 1978), born ''Jean da Silva Duarte'', Brazilian football defender
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Carioca (footballer, born 1979), born ''Claudio Silva da Fonseca'', Brazilian football midfielder
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Rafael Carioca (footballer, born 1986), born ''Rafael Felipe Barreto'', Brazilian football midfielder
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Jean Carioca (footballer, born 1988), born ''Jean Agostinho da Silva'', Brazilian football midfielder
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Rafael Carioca
Rafael de Souza Pereira (18 June 1989), known as Rafael Carioca, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Liga MX club Tigres UANL.
Club career Grêmio
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Rafael Carioca joined Grê ...
(born 1989), born ''Rafael de Souza Pereira'', Brazilian football defensive midfielder
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Rafael Carioca (footballer, born 1992), born ''Rafael Bruno Cajueiro da Silva'', Brazilian leftback
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Marquinhos Carioca (born 1992), born ''Marcus Vinícius Vidal Cunha'', Brazilian football winger
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Diego Carioca (born 1998), born ''Diego Silva Nascimento Santos'', Brazilian football midfielder
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Elias Carioca (born 1999), born ''Elias Rezende de Oliveira'', Brazilian football forward
Music
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Os Cariocas
Os Cariocas are a Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fi ...
, a Brazilian popular music group
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"Carioca" (1933 song), a song and a dance from the 1933 film ''Flying Down to Rio''
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Carioca (Raphael Gualazzi song), 2020
Places
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Sugar Loaf field, a Brazilian oil field
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Carioca Aqueduct
The Carioca Aqueduct ( pt, Aqueduto da Carioca), also known as Arcos da Lapa, is an aqueduct in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The aqueduct was built in the middle of the 18th century to bring fresh water from the Carioca River to the popul ...
, an 18th-century Aqueduct in Rio
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Carioca Station, a station on the
Rio de Janeiro Metro
The Rio de Janeiro Metro ( pt, MetrôRio, ), commonly referred to as just the ''Metrô'' () is a rapid transit network that serves the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Metrô was inaugurated on 5 March 1979, and consisted of five stations op ...
Others
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Carioca (food) (also known as ''pinakufu'' or ''paborot''), fried dessert from the Philippines made from glazed ground glutinous rice balls
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Volvo PV 36 Carioca
The Volvo PV 36 Carioca is a luxury car manufactured by Volvo Cars between 1935 and 1938. The word ''Carioca'' describes someone from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was also the name of a dance that was fashionable in Sweden at the time when the c ...
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José Carioca, a Disney character
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Carioca (card game)
Carioca is a Chilean card game similar to Rummy style card games with many variations. The variation described below is Perla's Cariocas.
Perla's Cariocas
Objective
The objective of the game is to finish with the smallest number of points, ...
, a card game similar to rummy style games
See also
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