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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 272. Not illustrated. Chapters: Settlements Established in 1540, Settlements Established in 1541, Settlements Established in 1542, Settlements Established in 1543, Settlements Established in 1544, Settlements Established in 1545, Settlements Established in 1546, Settlements Established in 1547, Settlements Established in 1548, Settlements Established in 1549, Santiago, Chile, Merida, Yucatan, La Paz, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Antigua Guatemala, Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Coban, Portoferraio, Salvador, Bahia, Morelia, Arequipa, Ternopil, San Miguel de Allende, La Serena, Chile, Metro La Paz, Loja, Ecuador, Arica, Potosi, Santa Cruz Das Flores, Campeche, Campeche, Santos, Sao Paulo, Ayacucho, Abancay, Penjamo, Pamplona, Colombia, Santa Fe de Antioquia, Tepic, Valladolid, Yucatan, Buenaventura, Valle Del Cauca, Canete, Chile, Cartago, Valle Del Cauca, Ekenas, And lska Hora, Zamora, Ecuador, Tocuyito, Budaniv, Sacatepequez, Borburata. Excerpt: Salvador, Bahia - Baia de Todos os Santos (All Saints Bay) was first encountered by the Portuguese and named in 1502. In 1501, one year after the arrival of Pedro Alvares Cabral's fleet in Porto Seguro, Gaspar de Lemos arrived at Todos os Santos Bay and sailed most of the Bahia coast. But the first European man to disembark on "Morro de Sao Paulo," Saint Paul's Mount, was Martim Afonso de Sousa, in 1531, leading an expedition to explore the coast of the new continent. In 1510, a ship, containing the Portuguese settler named Caramuru by the natives, wrecked near the borough of Rio Vermelho. In 1534, Francisco Pereira Coutinho founded a town near Barra borough, called Vila Velha, Portuguese for "Old Village." In 1549, a fleet of Portuguese settlers headed by Tome de Sousa, the first Governor-General of Brazil, established Salvador. Built on a high cliff overlooking All Saints bay as the first colonial ca...
