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Cabeza (cabeça in Portuguese) is a Spanish word meaning head. In Mexican cuisine it is used to describe the meat from a roasted head of a beef animal served as taco or burrito fillings.Typically the whole head is placed on a steamer or grill and customers may ask for particular parts of the head meats they favor such as ojo (eye) oreja (ear) cachete (cheek) lengua (tongue) or labios (lips).