Caipira

Caipira is a Brazilian term for inhabitants of remote, rural embossed parts of Brazil, particularly in the hinterland of the state of São Paulo.

The term is used without negative rating in the self- designation or description of rural caipira culture ( cultura caipira ). Caipira is also used disparaging and then described a simple, uneducated person. In this case caipira roughly corresponds to the meaning hillbillies.

Caipira is also a spoken dialect of caipira ( dialeto caipira ).

In the Brazilian winter festival Festa Juninas it is customary to dress up as caipira.

1990 there were in football in the state of São Paulo championship, the so-called final caipira. It was so named because in the final part took no team from one of the cities of São Paulo and Santos. Finalists were CA Bragantino from the 130,000 -inhabitant city of Bragança Paulista and Grêmio Esportivo Novorizontino from the 30,000 -inhabitant town of Novo Horizonte.