Criollo

Criollo (criollos, criolla, criollas) is a Spanish term that may refer to:

Groups of people and animals

• Criollo people, a caste in the Spanish race-based colonial caste system
• Criollo horse, a South American horse breed
• Cuban Criollo horse, a Cuban horse breed
• Criollo cattle, a group of cattle breeds descended from Spanish stock imported to the Americas
• Criollo goats, several goat breeds descended from Spanish stock imported to the Americas, including:
  • La Mancha goat, a dairy goat breed from the La Mancha plateau of Spain
  • American Lamancha goat, a distinctively short-eared American-bred goat breed
• Criollo sheep, a breed of domestic sheep originating in the highlands of South and Central America

Foods

• Avocado criollo, the native undomesticated variety of avocado (Persea americana) as found in Mexico
• Criollo cheese, a Mexican grating cheese
• Criollo (cocoa bean), a cocoa bean cultivar from Chuao, Venezuela
• Criolla (grape), a group of grape varieties
• Mango criollo/s, a mango cultivar originating from Ecuador
• Pabellón criollo, a traditional Venezuelan dish
• Pique criollo, a hot condiment used in Puerto Rican cooking

Music

• Criolla, a genre of Cuban music and song
• Criollo (band), a Bahire band
• Agustin Criollo, a multi instrumentalist artist born in San Juan de Puerto Rico in 1969
• Los Troveros Criollos, one of the most relevant groups in the history of Peruvian's musica criolla
• Música criolla, a category of Peruvian music combining mainly African, Spanish and Andean influences

Other

• Criollo tobacco, a type of tobacco originated in Cuba and used for cigar wrappers
• Criollos de Caguas (disambiguation)
• El Fausto criollo, a 1979 Argentine film directed by Luis Saslavsky
• Monte Criollo, a 1935 Argentine musical film directed and written by Arturo S. Mom

See also

• Criolo, the Cape Verdean Creole
• Creole (disambiguation)

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