Harnizo

Harnizo (17th century portrait: child of castizo and mestiza.)

Harnizo was the name of a caste within the colonial caste system,[1][2] which existed at a social level in the Spanish Empire and its American colonies and was a ethnic category portrayed in eighteenth-century casta paintings. Castes classified people born as a result of intermarriage between the three ethnic groups that Spain considered to exist: indigenous, black, and spaniard. Harnizo was defined by the offspring of individuals belonging to the mestizo caste with the castizo caste. Harnizo also resulted from the mixing of a coyote with a spaniard. A coyote is born to a mestizo and an indigenous person.[3][4]

Caste % spaniard % indigenous % black
mestizo (español + india) 50 50 0
harnizo (castizo + mestiza) 62,5 37,5 0
castizo (mestizo + española) 75 25 0

References

  1. ↑ "Reseña: El peso de la sangre. Limpios, mestizos y nobles en el mundo hispánico | Chaves Maldonado | Memoria y Sociedad". Archived from the original on 2014-07-27. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. ↑ "Harnizo | Arte Colonial". artecolonial.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  3. ↑ "¿De Donde Venimos? - El Sistema de Castas del Imperio Español" [Where Do We Come From? - The Caste System of the Spanish Empire] (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-10-24.
  4. ↑ "Sangre y temperamento - Pureza y mestizajes en las sociedades de castas Americanas" [Blood and temperament - Purity and miscegenation in American caste societies] (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-06.
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