Colonization Attempt
Brazil had been discovered in April 1500 by a fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral on behalf of the Portuguese crown, which arrived in present-day Porto Seguro, Bahia, but except for Salvador (the first Brazilian capital city) the rest of the new territory still remained largely unexplored half a century later.
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