Group
Brazil, Colonial
Colonial Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil Colonial) comprises the period from 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil is elevated to a kingdom alongside Portugal as the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.
During the first three hundred years years of Brazilian colonial history, the economic exploitation of the territory is based first on brazilwood extraction (sixteenth century), sugar production (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries), and finally on gold and diamond mining (eighteenth century).
Slaves, especially those brought from Africa, provide most of the working force of the Brazilian economy.In contrast to the neighboring fragmented Spanish possessions, the Portuguese colony, built up by the Portuguese in Latin America, maintains its territorial unity and linguistic integrity after independence, giving rise to the largest country in the region.
Member Cities
- Angra dos Reis Rio de Janeiro Brazil Location
- Ascension Island British overseas territory United Kingdom Location
- Bahía > Salvador Bahia Brazil Location
- Baía de Todos os Santos Bahia Brazil Location
- Benguela Benguela Angola Location
- Cabinda Cabinda Angola Location
- Cabo Frio Rio de Janeiro Brazil Location
- Cabo de Santo Agostinho Pernambuco Brazil Location
- Campos Rio de Janeiro Brazil Location
- Cananèia São Paulo Brazil Location
- Cannanore Kerala India Location
- Cape São Roque Rio Grande do Norte Brazil Location
- Coimbra Coimbra Portugal Location
- Colonia del Sacramento Colonia Uruguay Location
- Dakar Dakar Senegal Location
- Dieppe Haute-Normandie France Location
- Fernando de Noronha Pernambuco Brazil Location
- Florianópolis Santa Catarina Brazil Location
- Fortaleza Ceará Brazil Location
- Guanabara Bay Rio de Janeiro Brazil Location
- Ilhabela São Paulo Brazil Location
- Lisbon (Belém) Lisboa Portugal Location
- Lisbon > Lisboa Lisboa Portugal Location
- Luanda Luanda Angola Location
- M'banza Congo Zaire Angola Location
- Macapá Amapá Brazil Location
- Manaus Amazonas Brazil Location
- Mosselbaai (Mossel Bay) Western Cape South Africa Location
- Olinda Pernambuco Brazil Location
- Paranaguá Paraná Brazil Location
- Pernambuco > Recife Pernambuco Brazil Location
- Propriá Sergipe Brazil Location
- Príncipe da Beira Rondônia Brazil Location
- Pôrto Seguro Bahia Brazil Location
- Recife Pernambuco Brazil Location
- Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Brazil Location
- Río de la Plata Location
- Salvador Bahia Brazil Location
- Sanlúcar de Barrameda Andalucia Spain Location
- Santa Cruz de la Sierra Santa Cruz Bolivia Location
- Santos São Paulo Brazil Location
- Strait of Magellan Magallanes y Antartica Chile Location
- São Paulo São Paulo Brazil Location
- São Salvador > Salvador Bahia Brazil Location
- São Vicente São Paulo Brazil Location
- Vitória Espírito Santo Brazil Location