bacao

Updated: July 31, 2026

The other is the sleeping room, where the father, mother, and children, male and female, of all ages, sleep, promiscuously huddled together on a platform of boards or bar bacao. The majority of the jíbaros are whites. Mestizoes, mulattos, and negroes are numerous also.

R. A. (Rudolph Adams) Van Middeldyk - The History of Puerto Rico: From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation