State of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro
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State of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro Estado do Grão-Pará e Rio Negro | |||||||||
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1772–1775 | |||||||||
Status | State of the Portuguese Empire | ||||||||
Capital | Santa Maria de Belém | ||||||||
Common languages | Portuguese | ||||||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
Monarch | |||||||||
• 1772 - 1775 | Joseph I | ||||||||
Governor General | |||||||||
• 1772 - 1775 | João Pereira Caldas | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 1772 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1775 | ||||||||
Currency | Portuguese Real | ||||||||
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The State of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro (Portuguese: Estado do Grão-Pará e Rio Negro) was one of the states of the Portuguese Empire.
History
The state was created in 1772 by order of Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, the Secretary of the State for Joseph I of Portugal.[1]
The state was created because of the economic success of the State of Grão-Pará and Maranhão. Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo split that state into two states, the State of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro and the State of Maranhão and Piauí, thinking that this would cause even better economic conditions, though the state split would prove a failure.
In 1775, due to the failure of the new state, both the State of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro and the State of Maranhão and Piauí were merged into the State of Brazil, finally unifying Portuguese America into one colony.
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