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Santa Maria, Federal District

administrative region in the Federal District in Brazil

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ3949105 ↗
Source-derived summary

Santa Maria is an administrative region in the Federal District in Brazil. Santa Maria was founded on 10 February 1991, receiving the status of administrative region, according to Law 348, of 4 November 1992.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Santa Maria, Federal District” as administrative region in the Federal District in Brazil. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Santa, Maria and Federal.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Santa, Maria and Federal providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Santa Maria, Federal District”, the useful work is to connect “administrative region in the Federal District in Brazil” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3949105. Authority coordinates are -16.015, -48.013. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1991 and 1992.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Santa Maria, Federal District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Santa Maria, Federal District primary sources, Santa Maria, Federal District archive and Santa research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Santa Maria, Federal District”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Santa Maria, Federal District” 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.