Capitanias were the organisational units of the Portuguese state in its colony of Terra de Santa Cruz, or Land of the Holy Cross, which was later divided in the vice-kingdom of Brazil and that of Grão-Pará. Each was delivered to a single Capitão-Mor, who was usually an impoverished Portuguesenobleman. They were straight stripes of variable height of land divided parallel to the Equator from the coast to the Tordesilhas Line.
All but two failed. The Capitania de Pernambuco succeded by the plantation of sugarcane, and thus formed the basis for the vice_kingdom of Grão_Pará. The Capitania de São Vicente succeeded by the explorations of the hinterlands known as Bandeiras, and was at the origin of the vice_kingdom of Brazil and of the province of São Paulo.
Capitania (from the Portuguese Capitão, in English Captain) was the Administrative division and hereditary fief of the Portuguese state in some of its colonies.
The Capitania of Pernambuco succeded through the plantation of sugarcane, and thus formed the basis for the Viceroyalty of Grão-Pará.
The Capitania of São Vicente succeeded through the explorations of the hinterlands known as Bandeiras, and was at the origin of the Viceroyalty of Brazil (later the province of São Paulo).
The Capitania of Pernambuco succeded through the plantation of sugarcane Sugarcane or Sugar cane (Saccharum) is a genus of between 6–37 species (depending on taxonomic interpretation) of tall grasses (family Poaceae, tribe Andropogoneae), native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Old World.
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