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Brasil is a district of the Santa Ana canton, in the San Jos ... Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos [4] Centro Centroamericano de Población [5]
Núcleo Bandeirante is an administrative region in the Federal District in Brazil. It is located to the west of Paranoá Lake, being bordered by Arniqueira, Park Way, and Guará to the north, Candangolândia to the east, and Park Way and Riacho Fundo to the south. Núcleo Bandeirante was founded on December 19, 1956, receiving the status of ...
The Distrito Nacional is represented in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies on the same scale as a Province (a single Senator (Senador), plus one Deputy (Diputado) per 50,000 inhabitants). Its local government is the same as the provincial municipios , without the equivalent of a provincial tier of government.
The Senate represents the 26 states and the Federal District. Each state and the Federal District has a representation of three senators, who are elected by popular ballot for a term of eight years. Every four years, renewal of either one third or two-thirds of the Senate (and of the delegations of the States and the Federal District) takes place.
In 1549, the Portuguese Crown appointed Tomé de Sousa as the first governor-general of the vast Portuguese dominion in South America, known as the State of Brazil (Estado do Brasil). In 1621, the northern part of the dominion was detached, becoming a separate entity known as the State of Maranhão .
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There are 5569 municipalities in Brazil, comprising almost the entirety of the country's territory. The only exceptions are the Federal District (not divided into municipalities, but into 35 administrative regions, without any political autonomy) and the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha , which consists in a state district of Pernambuco.
The Federal District was first divided into administrative regions by a 1964 federal law. [3] Prior to this, the regions were not officially defined, but the seven oldest seats of government (Gama, Taguatinga, Brazlândia, Sobradinho, Planaltina, Paranoá, and Núcleo Bandeirante) already existed and were often called satellite cities (Portuguese: cidades satélites) to the capital Brasília ...