José Carioca is a Disney cartoon character drawn as anthropomorphized parrot from Rio de Janerio, Brazil, thus "Carioca" (a term which refers to a person born there). José was created in 1942 for the movie Saludos Amigos as a friend of Donald Duck, described by Time as "a dapper Brazilian parrot, who is as superior to Donald Duck as the Duck was to Mickey Mouse". He returned in the 1944 film The Three Caballeros, along with Donald and a Mexican rooster named Panchito Pistoles.