Pardo (disambiguation)

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Pardo is a word used in the Spanish colonies in the Americas to refer to the tri-racial descendants of Europeans, Amerindians, and Africans.

Pardo is a term used in the Portuguese and Spanish colonies in the Americas to refer to the multiracial descendants of Europeans, Indigenous Americans, South Asians, and West Africans. They are defined as neither exclusively mestizo, nor mulatto, nor zambo.

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Pardo (surname) family name

Pardo is a Sephardi Jewish family deriving its surname from Prado in Castile or from Prado del Rey in the Province of Cádiz. The place-name Prado is derived from the Spanish word prado, which means meadow. As with the name Castro/Crasto, letters have become transposed. The Spanish word pardo means brownish grey.. Members of the Pardo family have mostly distinguished themselves in the Levant.

In Brazil, Pardo is an ethnic/skin color category used by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in the Brazilian censuses. The term "pardo" is a complex one, more commonly used to refer to Brazilians of mixed ethnic ancestries. Pardo Brazilians represent a wide range of skin colours and backgrounds. They are typically a mixture of white Brazilian, Afro-Brazilian and Native Brazilian.

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Pardo Ridge highest part of Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands

Pardo Ridge is the highest part of Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands, reaching an altitude of 852 m. It extends from The White Company in the West to Cape Valentine in the East. It was mapped by the UK Joint Services Expedition, 1970-71, and named by the UK-APC after Captain Luis Pardo, commander of the Chilean tug Yelcho which rescued shipwrecked members of Shackleton's Endurance from Elephant Island's Wild Point in August 1916.

The Capivara River is a river of Minas Gerais state in southeastern Brazil.

The Claro River is a river of São Paulo state in southeastern Brazil.

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