* Amigos dos Amigos, drug cartel in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro

* Brasil, Rio Grande do Sul-Associação dos Amigos, Parentes e Portadores de Ataxias Dominantes

In 1776, the viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata, was segregated and incorporated.

In Peru and Rio de la Plata many powerful figures proposed an American Monarchy such as those who wanted an independent Peruvian king of the still alive Inca Royal House, and those who requested a Prince of the Spanish house of Bourbon to come and rule directly in Lima, Mexico City or Bogota, as the Portuguese House of Orleans-Braganza had done in Rio de Janeiro.

The discovery was made public at a recent meeting of the Brazilian Geophysical Society in Rio de Janeiro.

At 9: 30 am the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.

On this ship he took a detachment of troops from Rio de Janeiro to Colonia do Sacramento on the Rio de la Plata ( opposite Buenos Aires ) to relieve the garrison there.

Phillip learnt of this in April when he put in for storm repairs at Rio de Janeiro.

Phillip wrote to Townshend from Rio de Janeiro on 25 April 1783, expressing his disappointment that the ending of the American War had robbed him of the opportunity for naval glory in South America.

" 1st ed ; Ebook: CD-Rom / On-Line Portuguese, ISBN 85-903827-1-0, File. pdf ( Adobe Acrobat ) 6Mb, Informática, Rio de Janeiro, August 2003, 486pp., medicina. ufrj. br

* Brazilian Naval Revolt ( 1893-1894 ): Were armed mutinies promoted mainly by Admirals Custodio de Mello and Saldanha da Gama and their fleet of Brazilian Navy ships against unconstitucional staying in power of the central government in Rio de Janeiro.

Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras | Military Academy of Agulhas Negras ( Army Academy ) in Resende, Rio de Janeiro.

From 1946 through 1985, the army was divided into four numbered armies: the First Army was centered in Rio de Janeiro, the Second Army in São Paulo, the Third Army in Porto Alegre, and the Fourth Army in Recife.

Historically, the First Army was the most politically significant because of Rio de Janeiro's position as the nation's capital through the 1950s.

Each of the seven military commands has its headquarters in a major city: Eastern Military Command ( Comando Militar do Leste-CML ), Rio de Janeiro ; Southeastern Military Command ( Comando Militar do Sudeste-CMSE ), São Paulo ; Southern Military Command ( Comando Militar do Sul-CMS ), Porto Alegre ; Northeastern Military Command ( Comando Militar do Nordeste-CMN ), Recife ; CMO, Campo Grande ; CMP, Brasília ; and CMA, Manaus.

In what is perhaps an anachronism, the CML in Rio de Janeiro continues to have some of the best troop units and the most modern equipment.

Command of the CML is still a coveted assignment, and the Military Village ( Vila Militar ), Rio de Janeiro's garrison or military community, is still considered one of the most important centers of military influence in the entire country.

* 1888 – The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.

Almost immediately, however, the Rio de la Plata Province-now consisting of 800 Europeans-split into two warring factions.

The original distribution of the family was the southeastern United States to north of Rio de la Plata, Argentina, and central and southern Africa, including Madagascar.

Its natural harbor soon developed into a commercial area competing with Rio de la Plata's capital, Buenos Aires.

** The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is established by the 5 Latinos in the United States Congress: Herman Badillo of the Bronx, E. de la Garza and Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas, Edward R. Roybal of California, and the nonvoting Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Baltasar Corrada del Rio.

* 1525 — Aleixo Garcia explored the Rio de la Plata in service to Spain, as a member of the expedition of Juan Díaz de Solís, and later-from Santa Catarina, Brazil-leading an expedition of some Europeans and 2, 000 Guaraní Indians, explored Paraguay and Bolivia.

His continent is based, however tenuously, on the report of an actual voyage: that of the Portuguese merchants Nuno Manuel and Cristobal Haro to the Rio de la Plata, and related in the Newe Zeytung auss Presillg Landt (“ New Tidings from the Land of Brazil ”) published in Augsburg in 1514.

This supposed “ strait ” was in fact the Rio de la Plata.

Between 1806 and 1807, British military forces tried to invade the area of the Rio de la Plata, at the command of Home Riggs Popham and William Carr Beresford, and John Whitelocke.

Most reconstructions show Rodinia's core was formed by the North American craton ( the later paleocontinent of Laurentia ), surrounded in the southeast with the East European craton ( the later paleocontinent of Baltica ), the Amazonian craton (" Amazonia ") and the West African craton ; in the south with the Rio de la Plata and São Francisco cratons ; in the southwest with the Congo and Kalahari cratons ; and in the northeast with Australia, India and eastern Antarctica.

As early as 850 and 800 million years ago, a rift developed between the continental masses of present-day Australia, eastern Antarctica, India and the Congo and Kalahari cratons on one side and later Laurentia, Baltica, Amazonia and the West African and Rio de la Plata cratons on the other.

The first group of cratons would eventually, around 550 million years ago ( on the boundary between the Ediacaran and Cambrian ), fuse again with Amazonia, West Africa and the Rio de la Plata craton.

* Rio de la Plata ( 1776 – 1814 )

In the 18th century the additional Viceroyalty of New Granada 1717 ( capital, Bogotá ), and Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata 1776 ( capital, Buenos Aires ) were established from portions of the Viceroyalty of Peru.

Asunción is one of the oldest cities in South America and the longest continually inhabited area in the Rio de la Plata Basin ; for this reason that it is known as " Mother of Cities ".

On December 14, 1818, the French privateer Hipólito Bouchard, sailing under the flag of the " United Provinces of Rio de la Plata " ( Argentina ), brought his ships La Argentina and Santa Rosa to within sight of the Mission ; aware that Bouchard ( today known as " California's only pirate ") had recently conducted raids on the settlements at Monterey and Santa Barbara, Comandante Ruíz had sent forth a party of thirty men ( under the leadership of a young Spanish lieutenant named Santiago Argüello ) to protect the Mission at first news of the approach on the 13th.

The pace of growth in the region increased dramatically with the establishment in 1776 of the new Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata with Buenos Aires as its capital, and increased legal trading allowed by the Free Trade Act of 1778, which allowed for " free and protected " trade between Spain and its colonies.

Forbes's testimony should be appraised in perspective of the contemporary Anglo-American commercial rivalry, In light of the partial nature of the account and of his " jealousy, even antipathy " towards the English in Rio de la Plata.

The status of the classical guitar at the beginning of the twentieth century had declined, and only in Barcelona and in the Rio de la Plata region of South America could it have been said to be of any significance.

Christopher de Haro, the financier of the expedition, bears witness to the trip to La Plata ( Rio da Prata ) and the news of the " White King " to the interior and west, the Inca emperor-and the axe of silver obtained from the natives and offered to the king Manuel I.

* Rio de la Plata

The Rio Grande KC is also considering having their Junior Classes set up so that Juniors can qualify with points for Westminster.

The most common reference to `` wet stock '' was with the meanin' that such animals had been smuggled across the Rio Grande after bein' stolen from their rightful owners.

McNair, 25, was seized March 20 with four Cubans and accused of trying to land a boatload of rifles in Pinar Del Rio, about 35 miles from Havana.

The river, named Hamza after the discoverer, an Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal Hamza who is working with the National Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and geologically unusual instance of a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth's crust in Brazil.

Between 1992 and 2008, the 1st, 2nd and 16th Jungle Infantry Brigades, the 3rd Infantry Battalion, the 19th Logistics Battalion, and the 22nd Army Police Platoon were transferred by the Army from the states of Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul to the Amazon region in accordance with the friendship policy with Argentina.

Its width, at its bifurcation with the Orinoco, is approximately, with a current towards the Rio Negro of.

In flood-time it is said to have a second connection with the Rio Negro by a branch, which it throws off to the westward, called the Itinivini, which leaves it at a point about above its mouth.

During flood stage, the Casiquiare's main outflow point into the Rio Negro is supplemented by an overflow that is a second, and more minor, entry river bifurcation into the Rio Negro and upstream from its major, common low-water entry confluence with the Rio Negro.

The Casiquiare canal connects the upper Orinoco, 9 miles below the mission of Esmeraldas, with the Rio Negro affluent of the Amazon River near the town of San Carlos.

As the headliner, Lenny Kravitz got to play the venue a second time, with Jorge Benjor, Macy Gray, O Rappa and Pharrell as the main opening acts, on October 2, 2009, 100, 000 people filled the beach for a huge beach party as the IOC announced Rio would be hosting the 2016 Olympics.

In Northeastern Brazil and among the diaspora of its population in other Brazilian regions, cuzcuz ( locally, in Rio de Janeiro, in São Paulo ), a steamed cake of couscous and corn flour ( a mixture called fubá, pronounced, said to be of African origin from the slave trade ), is a popular meal, served in many forms: With sugar and milk, with varied meats, with cheese and eggs, and so on.

An early Classic ( 460 – 480 AD ) period Mayan tomb from the site of Rio Azul, Guatemala, had vessels with the Maya glyph for cacao on them with residue of a chocolate drink.

A war with Peru ( named the Cenepa War, after a river located in the area ) erupted in January – February 1995 in a small, remote region, where the boundary prescribed by the 1942 Rio Protocol was in dispute.

Ecuador continues to contest the boundary with Peru, which was established by the Rio Protocol of 1942 and ceded to Peru a large portion of territory east of the Andes.

The island is divided into eight municipalities, of which Portoferraio is the main one, the others ; Campo nell ' Elba, Capoliveri, Marciana, Marciana Marina, Porto Azzurro, Rio Marina, and Rio nell ' Elba, are part of the province of Livorno, with a total of about 30, 000 inhabitants, which increases considerably during the summer.