What is the backcountry or jungle settlements called where slaves escaped to who actively resisted slavery and practiced capoeira.

Answer: Quilombos

Explanation: Quilombos are inaccessible areas where fugitive slaves stay, Quilombos are always made up of farmers and raiding. Quilombos are known to contain less than 100persons, in ancient Brazil, Quilombos are called Mocambo, while the most popular with a population of over twenty thousand persons is Palmares, which owed its prosperity to the availability of irrigated lands and abduction of slaves from Portuguese plantations.