Couto

Couto may mean a number of different things:

Surname

Couto is a common surname in the Galician and Portuguese language, namely in Portugal, Galicia and Brazil. Its meaning is game reservation or feudal land. Sometimes a diminutive form occurs, Coutinho. It is a name associated with a great number of different people:

• André Couto, Portuguese/Macanese racing driver.
• Fernando Couto, Portuguese football player.
• Mia Couto, Mozambican writer.
• Maria Aurora Couto, Goan Catholic writer, historian and educationalist.
• Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes, longest-lived person to be documented in Portugal.
• Gago Coutinho, Portuguese aviation pioneer.
• Vasco Coutinho, founder of the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo.
• Alex Couto American politician/ intellectual

Places

• Couto de Santa Cristina, in Santo...... ...
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