Geraldo Pé de Abelha

Geraldo Pé de Abelha (meaning "Bee Foot") was one of the 22 founding mestres of the Centro Nacional de Capoeira de Origem Angola, the historic gathering at Ladeira de Pedra in the Gengibirra area of Salvador's Liberdade neighborhood. This center, established in the 1920s during the era when capoeira was still criminalized in Brazil, served as the primary meeting place for traditional capoeira angola practitioners.

The distinctive nickname "Pé de Abelha" (Bee Foot) set him apart among the many capoeiristas of his era, though the origin of this moniker has not been documented. Like many of his contemporaries at Gengibirra, Geraldo Pé de Abelha practiced capoeira during a dangerous period when practitioners faced police persecution and imprisonment.

Mestre Noronha, who documented the history of Gengibirra in his manuscripts (later published as "O ABC da Capoeira Angola" in 1993), remembered Geraldo Pé de Abelha among the "bambas" (skilled fighters) of capoeira's past. He was present at the historic gathering when, on February 23, 1941, Mestre Aberrê introduced Mestre Pastinha to the roda at Gengibirra, leading to Pastinha's assumption of leadership and the eventual transformation into CECA.

No further biographical details about Geraldo Pé de Abelha have been documented.