Diogo Álvares Correia, known as Caramuru , was one of the first Portuguese to settle in Bahia. He is considered the “biological father” of Brazil due to his marriage to an Indian from the Tupinambá tribe called Paraguaçu. Biography As the sources about his life are few, much of what is known abou
Hermes da Fonseca was a gaucho republican military and politician who governed the country between 1910 and 1914. He was the eighth president of the Republic of Brazil being the nephew of the first president of the Republic in Brazil, Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca, so that he participated in the Procl
Thesugarcane cycle denominates the period when sugar was the main export product of Brazil. It began with the establishment of the Portuguese settler on the Brazilian coast, in 1530, when hereditary captaincies were created as a form of political and territorial organization. The Brazilian sugar c
General Manuel A. Odría has the honor of being buried in the Santa Ana de Tarma Cathedral, very close to the main altar. He must be, perhaps, the only Latin American dictator, at least in the 20th century, who enjoys that posthumous privilege. The people of Tarm thus thanked their favorite son who,