What is Mestiço?
{{italicize title}} {{About||the Spanish term|Mestizo}} [[File:MulatoAE.jpg|thumb|right|Mestiço man with a gun and sword under a fruiting papaya tree, Albert Eckhout, mid-17th-century [[Dutch Brazil]]]] '''Mestiço''', in [[Brazil]], is a term that was used under [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] colonialization to refer to people of mixed [[Native American]] or [[Africa|African]] and [[Portugal|Portuguese]] ancestry. {{Multiethnicity}} {{stub}} [[Category:Native Americans]] [[Category:Ethnic groups in South America]]