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Brazil is home to roughly 215 million people and one of the largest diasporas in the Americas, with significant communities in the United States, Portugal, and Japan. Portuguese is the national language, Catholicism and Afro-Brazilian religions shape daily life, and the country's cultural output, from samba and bossa nova to feijoada and Carnival, is globally recognized and locally practiced with real intensity.
Community at a Glance
Fast facts about the Brazilian community in the United States
Diaspora
Concentrated in Boston, Miami, New York, Toronto, and Lisbon.
Portuguese
with regional indigenous languages also spoken.
Carnaval
Festa Junina, and Dia da Independência.
Roman Catholicism is practiced by the majority of Brazilians.
Roman Catholicism is practiced by the majority of Brazilians.
Candomblé
Umbanda, Spiritism, and Evangelical Christianity are also widespread.
Colonial Portuguese settlement from 1500
with deep indigenous and African foundations.
Key Definitions
Quick guide to terms you'll hear in the Brazilian community

What is Candomblé, and where does it come from?
Candomblé is an Afro-Brazilian religion brought by enslaved West Africans, centered on orixás, spiritual deities honored through drumming, dance, and ritual offerings.

What makes capoeira distinct from other martial arts?
Capoeira blends fight, dance, and acrobatics into one continuous form, developed by enslaved Africans in Brazil and practiced to live berimbau music.

What is Festa Junina, and who celebrates it?
Festa Junina is a June harvest festival honoring Saints Anthony, John, and Peter, celebrated with forró dancing, quadrilha, corn dishes, and decorative flags.
Cultural Heritage
Explore the traditions, arts, and history that define this community

Cuisine
Brazilian food draws from indigenous, West African, Portuguese, and Japanese culinary traditions in equal measure.
- • Feijoada, a slow-cooked black bean and pork stew, is widely regarded as the national dish.
- • Pão de queijo, cheese bread made from tapioca flour, is eaten at breakfast across every region.
- • Acarajé, deep-fried black-eyed pea fritters filled with vatapá, originates in Bahian Afro-Brazilian cooking.

Arts & Music
Brazil produced two globally distinct genres that shaped 20th-century music worldwide.
- • Samba emerged in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1900s, rooted in African rhythms and percussion.
- • Bossa nova, pioneered by João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim in the late 1950s, fused samba with jazz.
- • Forró, a northeastern accordion-driven genre, is the centerpiece of Festa Junina dances across Brazil.

Celebrations & Traditions
Brazilian events follow a calendar where Catholic, indigenous, and African traditions frequently overlap and intersect.
- • Rio Carnival features samba schools competing in the Sambadrome over two nights before Ash Wednesday.
- • Círio de Nazaré in Belém draws over two million people each October for a candle-lit religious procession.
- • Bumba Meu Boi in Maranhão is a folkloric festival combining indigenous, African, and Portuguese storytelling through music and costume.
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