Captaincy of Cabo de Norte

The Captaincy of Cabo de Norte was a captaincy in Brazil which existed from 1637 until 1693.

The captaincy of Cabo de Norte was granted by King Philip IV of Spain to Bento Maciel Parente in 1637 during the Iberian Union of Crowns, it included the north shore of the Amazon as far upstream as the Paru River, a vast area corresponding to the modern-day state of Amapá.[1][2][3]

The captaincy returned to the Portuguese Crown in 1693.[4]

References
  1. Colonial Brazil. Cambridge University Press. 1987. p. 175. ISBN 9780521349253.
  2. The Cambridge History of Latin America. Cambridge University Press. 1984. p. 531.
  3. José Paranhos (1894). Statement Submitted by the United States of Brazil to the President of the United States of America as Arbitrator: Under the Provisions of the Treaty Concluded September 7, 1889, Between Brazil and the Argentine Republic... United States: Knickerbocker Press. p. 19.
  4. Silvia Espelt-Bombin. "Frontier Politics: French, Portuguese and Amerindian Alliances between the Amazon and Cayenne, 1680–1697" (PDF). University of Exeter. Retrieved October 17, 2023.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.