Sousa, Martim Afonso de

Sousa, Martim Afonso de

▪ Portuguese admiral
born c. 1500, , Vila Viçosa, Port.
died July 21, 1564, Lisbon

      Portuguese admiral who commanded the first colonizing expedition to Brazil (1530–33).

      After destroying a French trading post in the territory of Pernambuco, Sousa founded the first two permanent Portuguese settlements in Brazil in 1532. One was São Vicente, near the present port of Santos, and the other was Piratininga, now São Paulo. He set up a municipal government and legal and economic systems, thereby laying the basis for future colonial social organization. He also established friendly relations with the Indians and obtained information from a group of shipwrecked Spanish sailors about the location of gold and silver in the interior of Brazil. Sousa was later governor of the Portuguese colony in Goa, India.

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