Indio

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Indio is the Spanish word for "Indian", "Native American" or Amerindian. It may refer to:

• Indio, California, a city
• Indio (beer), a Mexican beer

[edit] People

• Indio, Spanish word used for Mexicans, Central Americans, and South Americans who are of Indigenous Native American Indian/Amerindian ancestry to whatever degree (see Indigenous Mexicans). It was also used in Spanish Colonial times for the ethnic Malays in the Philippines, who were not called Filipinos in Spanish Colonial times. Filipino Sailors serving in the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade were called Luzones Indios, Manilamen, or Indios Bravos in the Philippines and Mexico in colonial times. The name “Filipino” was given to the white Spanish colonists born in the Philippines.
• Aluísio Francisco da Luz, nicknamed Índio, a Brazilian football player in the 1940s to 1960s
• Marcos Antônio de Lima, nicknamed Índio, a Brazilian football player who currently plays for Internacional
• Indio (music), a Canadian recording artist whose real name is Gordon Peterson