Cocobalé
Afro-Puerto Rican martial art
- Type
- martial arts
Cocobalé (also Cocobale or Kokobalé) is an Afro-Puerto Rican combat tradition that consists of various combative modalities including unarmed combat, stick-fighting, machete-fighting, as well as various other forms of weaponry. It consists of both combative and folkloric elements, and is closely connected to the musical traditions of Bomba.
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.