Who discovered Brazil? Was it Cabral? Probably, just as the Indians Brazilians also discovered the Portuguese, but as the ancient history is made of reports interpretations it is quite possible that other visitors, have come through here first.
The Spaniard Vicente Pinzón may have been one of them companion of Christopher Columbus in the discovery of America in 1492, he would have been here in January of 1500, three months before Cabral. In the account of your trip, give a description contact with the Pontiguar Indians, of a beautiful sandy beach, probably Jericoacoara in Ceará, besides to witness a resounding encounter of a river with the sea, possibly the pororoca of the Amazon. .
The greatest proof of this trip is the map of the cartographer Juan de La Cosa, made with the annotations of Pinzon, in which part of the Brazilian northeast is mapped, as well as before the Portuguese appeared there. Polemics aside, it is a fact that our country only comes into existence for the old world from the arrival of Pedro Álvares Cabral, on April 22, 1500, that baptizes him of "Vera Cruz". But shortly thereafter, Dom Manuel, king of Portugal, change the name and date to coincide with the Santa Cruz holiday on May 3.
For more than 300 years, Brazil celebrated its birthday on wrong, until the letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha, who narrated the voyage of Cabral, was found. But who really brings fame to the revelation of the new lands is not Cabral, nor Columbus, but the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci. Cousin of Simonetta Vespucci, who served as model for the work of Boticelli, he participates, in 1499, of a Spanish expedition to the American continent, and in 1501, of the Portuguese expedition that came to recognize Brazil after the arrival of Cabral It is on this trip that possibly several geographical points names of saints, according to the days when they are sighted: Vespucci liked so much of what he saw that he would still come to Brazil again.
Back in Europe, the account of his travels is published, and becomes the incredible success editorial in several countries. the books he describes in a way what you found in the new continent, with capricious doses of sex, cannibalism, exotic creatures and even of the violence of the colonizers. Em1507 the famous map of la revolucion miller baptizes America's new continent in homage to Amerigo Vespucci.
The name of our country has another history. Almost 200 years before the arrival of cabral the island Brazil or island blessed already it was part of the European imagination that including nautical maps in different locations, as well as old these representations were based on not only in legends but also the reports from many browsers, which have found unknown lands in the the West only after a long time in the sea From 1,500 this fisherman's talk would prove to be rather prophetic, Brazil wood, wood used to achieve and videos was so abundant here which would name our lands. The main source of income for Portuguese and European traffickers, the tree disappeared with time and is now almost a legend, just as the Indians that existed here.
