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Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco

Portuguese colonial official in Brazil (1566–1619)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco (1566–1619) was a Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator. He is noted as the founder of the city of Belém, capital of Pará, Brazil, on 12 January 1616. Caldeira served as the first Governor General of the Captaincy of Grão-Pará.

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The public source identifies “Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco” as portuguese colonial official in Brazil (1566–1619). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Francisco, Caldeira and Castelo.

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This entry incorporates text from “Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.