Cacao is the seed from which cocoa and chocolate are made, from Spanish cacao, an adaptation of Nahuatl cacaua, the root form of cacahuatl ("bean of the cocoa-tree"). It may also refer to:

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*'' Theobroma cacao'', a tropical evergreen tree ** Cocoa bean, the seed from the tree used to make chocolate **

Cacao paste Chocolate liquor (cocoa liquor) is pure cocoa mass (cocoa paste) in solid or semi-solid form. Like the cocoa beans (nibs) from which it is produced, it contains both cocoa solids and cocoa butter in roughly equal proportion. It is produced fr ...

, ground cacao beans. The mass is melted and separated into: *** Cocoa butter, a pale, yellow, edible fat; and *** Cocoa solids, the dark, bitter mass that contains most of cacao's notable phytochemicals, including caffeine and theobromine.

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Cacao, French Guiana Cacao is a village in French Guiana, lying on the to the south of Cayenne. Most of the population are Hmong farmers, refugees from Laos who were resettled in French Guiana in 1977. The reasoning was that living, and working conditions were sim ...

Cacao, Carolina, Puerto Rico Cacao is a barrio in the municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,214. History Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an ...

Cacao, Quebradillas, Puerto Rico Cacao is a barrio in the municipality of Quebradillas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,663. One of the communities within this barrio is named Cacao Community and in 2010 had a population of 1,001. History Puerto Rico was ceded by Spa ...

Cacao Alto Cacao Alto is a barrio in the municipality of Patillas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,449. History Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and becam ...

, Patillas, Puerto Rico *

Cacao Bajo Cacao Bajo is a barrio in the municipality of Patillas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1,437. History Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and becam ...

, Patillas, Puerto Rico *

Hacienda Cacao Hacienda Cacao is located off the Carretera Uman-Hopelceh (Uman-Hopelceh highway) within Abalá Municipality, Mexico, and is in the South West Region 8 area of the State of Yucatán. It is one of the properties that arose during the nineteenth ce ...

, Yucatán, Mexico

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Maria Cacao Maria Cacao is the ''diwata'' or mountain goddess associated with Mount Lantoy in Argao, Cebu, Philippines. The Maria Cacao legend is a prominent example of the mountain goddess motif in Philippine mythology; other prominent examples being Maria M ...

, a mountain goddess in the Philippines

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