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Brazilian Portuguese acarajé: traditional food made with black-eyed-pea cakes fried in dende palm oil aguadero: water carrier (in times past) Bahianas: women from Bahia barraca: beach shack, hut, bar-restaurant on the beach barragem: dam, barrier barreiras: coastal geologic formation composed of rock or clay bica (fonte): water tap, fountain cacimba: cistern (in times past) Candomblé: Afro-Brazilian spiritual tradition Carnaval: Carnival Ciclo da Festa Popular: Popular Festival Cycle (also Summer Festival Cycle) favela: irregular settlement, shantytown festas: parties, celebrations lavagem: ritual washing of steps that is a part of Popular Festival Cycle lençol freático: water table lençol subterrâneo: confined aquifer olho d’agua: eye of water, rain-fed lake orixá: Afro-Brazilian divinity outorga: permit padrões: legal limits palafita: stilt house quilombo: community, federation, redoubt of escaped slaves redes: networks, systems restinga: ecoregion in northeast Brazil, sand dunes with shrubs and low forest Argentine Spanish agua parada: dammed water aguatero: water carrier (in times past) Glossary 182 / Glossary aljibe: cistern (in times past) aquifero: aquifer campesino: peasant coventillo: tenement hectare: unit of land area (1 hectare = 2.47 acres) maté: tea from Yerba maté, Ilex paraguariensis, A. St.-Hil. muerto anticipado: genocide (lit., anticipated death) napa freática: water table obras: public works originarios: aboriginals, indigenous people persona jurídica: juridical person; person with legal standing personaría: group of petitioners piqueteros: activists who block roads and bridges as a political tactic porteño: person from Buenos Aires (lit., person of the port) pozo negro: septic tank (lit., black well) ribera: riverside saneamiento: sanitation infrastructure, plumbing sudestadas: southeasterlies vecinos: neighbors villas: irregular settlements, shantytowns ...

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