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State of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro Estado do Grão-Pará e Rio Negro | |||||||||
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| 1772–1775 | |||||||||
Map of the State of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro in 1772 | |||||||||
| Status | State of the Portuguese Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Santa Maria de Belém | ||||||||
| Common languages | Portuguese | ||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||
| Monarch | |||||||||
• 1772–1775 | Joseph I | ||||||||
| Governor General | |||||||||
• 1772–1775 | João Pereira Caldas | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1772 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1775 | ||||||||
| Currency | Portuguese Real | ||||||||
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TheState of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro (Portuguese:Estado do Grão-Pará e Rio Negro) was one of thestates of the Portuguese Empire.
The state was created in 1772 by order ofSebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, the Secretary of the State forJoseph I of Portugal.[1]
The state was created because of the economic success of theState 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 theState 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 economical issues inBelém andSão Luis, both the State of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro and theState of Maranhão and Piauí were merged into theState of Brazil, formally unifyingPortuguese America into one colony. However, the State of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro would remain autonomous of the Brazilian colonial government until 1823, when it would formally join theEmpire of Brazil[2][3][4][5]