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The Capoeira Genealogy documents the lineages, teachers, students, groups, and history of Capoeira — a living oral tradition, much of whose history is undocumented and at risk of being lost. Our goal is to preserve and share that heritage for the global Capoeira community and for researchers.

Entries are compiled from publicly available sources on the internet — Capoeira history sites, encyclopedias, academy and group pages, interviews, and academic publications — by a research pipeline built for this project, with a review and curation workflow. Each claim aims to carry a source citation. Some claims come from people themselves, such as a practitioner who adds a relationship in the app. We note when a claim comes from someone with a personal stake in it, and we do not treat a source that only repeats another as independent confirmation. The work is ongoing and imperfect: dates are often approximate, and some connections are uncertain or disputed. We mark that uncertainty rather than hide it.

We record only what helps document Capoeira transmission: practitioners and their lineage, teachers and students, groups, titles, styles, and where/when people were active in the art.

We deliberately leave out personal information that isn't part of that story. We don't publish private contact details or home addresses, we don't include children, and we don't list family members who aren't themselves part of Capoeira.

We treat a person as alive unless the record has a date of death, or they were born 110 or more years ago. When we learn that someone has died, we add the date of death with its source only after it has passed our review workflow.

For people who are alive, we show the same Capoeira profile as for historical figures — biography, achievements, style notes, links and portrait — with one difference: we show only the year of birth, never the full date. Profiles of anyone the record shows to be under 18 are not shown at all.

This project exists for the community, and we want to get it right and be respectful. If you — or someone you represent — are featured and would like a correction, added context, or removal, write to us at support@quilombo.net and we'll review and respond. This applies equally to fixing facts and to removal requests.

Historical Capoeira data is incomplete and sometimes contested. Dates may appear as decades or approximations, and relationships carry a confidence level. Please treat entries as a sourced, evolving record — not the final word — and help us improve it.

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