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Charming Ceará
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 Official sponsor of the Annual Charity regatta of Guajiru CE
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History of the region
In 1534 king João II divides the Brazilian coastline east of the Line of Tordesillas into 14 'captaincies' under hereditary donatories. From north to south:
Maranhão (Joáo de Barros)
Ceará
Rio Grande
Itabaracá (Pero Lopes de Sousa)
Pernambuco (Duarte Coelho)
Bahia de Todos os Santos (Francisco Pereira Coutinho)
Ilhéus (Vasco Fernandes Coutinho)
Pôrto Seguro
Espírito Santo
São Tomé (Pero de Góis)
São Vincente (Martim Afonso de Sousa)
In 1580 Brazil comprised the area from Pernambuco in the north to São Vicente in the south. With Spanish assistance thereafter, the Portuguese expanded north to Paraíba, then west through Ceará and Maranhão against the natives and the French, until they founded Belém in 1616. The Portuguese started to penetrate Ceará in 1603. Beginning in 1621, these possessions were divided into the state of Maranhão (embracing the crown captaincies of Ceará, Maranhão, and Pará) and the state of Brazil, centering on Salvador, Bahia.
In the Empire years, it happened one of the most known facts of the Ceará's history. In 1881, the rafts man Francisco José do Nascimento, "Dragão do Mar" ("Sea Dragoon"), nicknamed by Chico da Matilde, opposed to transport slave ships, settled on Fortaleza's port, the slaves that would be sold to the south of the country. The gesture contributed so that Ceará were the first Province of the Country to abolish the slavery, in 1884. That’s why the State received the name "Terra da Luz" ("Land of Light").
The monastery in Baturité
The monastery was established by the Jesuits in the 18th century and has served as an elite college for the youth of Fortaleza until the 1990ties. Now it is used as a hotel and conference center where one should not seek luxury but simple sacred quietness and beauty.
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