Caras

Caras may refer to:

People with the surname Caras

Cara culture

The Cara culture flourished in coastal Ecuador, in what is now Manabí Province, in the first millennium CE.

History

In the 10th century CE, they followed the Esmeraldas River up to the high Andean valley now known as the city San Francisco de Quito. They defeated the local Quitu tribe and set up a kingdom. The combined Quitu-Cara culture was known as the Shyris civilization, or the Caranqui civilization which thrived from 800 CE to the 1470s.

For more than four centuries under the kings, called shyris, of the Caras, the Kingdom of Quito dominated much of highlands of modern Ecuador. The Caras and their allies were narrowly defeated in the epic battles of Tiocajas and Tixán in 1462, by an army of 250,000 led by Túpac Inca, the son of the Emperor of the Incas. After several decades of consolidation, the Kingdom of Quito became integrated into the Incan Empire.

In 1534 the Quitu-Cara culture were conquered by the Spanish. They became extinct chiefly from exposure to new European infectious diseases, which took a heavy toll in fatalities. In addition, the Spanish conquerors married Quitu-Cara women, and descendants continued to intermarry, producing the mestizo population of the region.

Caras (magazine)

Caras (meaning Faces in English) is a Portuguese language weekly celebrity and women's magazine published in Lisbon, Portugal. The magazine is also distributed in Angola.

History and profile

Caras was established in 1995. The magazine is part of the Impresa Group, which also controls the weekly newspaper Expresso and news magazine Visão. The publisher of the magazine, based in Lisbon, is Edimpresa-Editora Lda, a subsidiary of the Swiss publishing company Edipresse.

Caras provides weekly news on the private lives of the public figures both from Portugal and from other countries and news about fashion, beauty, health, cuisine and decoration. The magazine has been distributed weekly in Angola since September 2005.

In 2014 Caras was the recipient of the Meios and Publicidade award in the category of society publication.

Circulation

In 2007 Caras had a circulation of 91,000 copies. The circulation of the weekly was 88,691 copies from February 2008 to February 2009. Its circulation was 60,979 copies between September and October 2013.