What is "palmares"

Palmares may refer to:

• Palmares, Pernambuco, a municipality in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil
• Palmares Paulista
• Palmares (canton), a canton in the province of Alajuela in Costa Rica
• Palmares de Alajuela, a city and district in the canton of Palmares in the province of Alajuela in Costa Rica
• Palmarès, the list of accomplishments in sport
• Palmares (quilombo), a legendary, powerful quilombo located in Brazil and destroyed by Portuguese artillery in 1694
• Palmares River
• Zumbi dos Palmares International Airport

Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was a fugitive community of escaped slaves and others in colonial Brazil that developed from 1605 until its suppression in 1694. It was located in what is today the Brazilian state of Alagoas.

Palmares is the seventh canton in the Province of Alajuela in Costa Rica.