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Sardinha was ordained a bishop by Dom Fernando de Menezes Coutinho e Vasconcellos, taking office on June 22, 1552. He resigned on June 2, 1556. On July 16, 1556, he and his crew were shipwrecked and captured by the Caeté people in the Captaincy of Pernambuco , a Portuguese administrative district that covered the region north of Bahia.
Because of its origins as a village settled by American Confederates, it received the name "Americana", referring to "cidade" or city, the feminine form of "American", which in Portuguese means any native of the Americas, although often applied only to US citizens. [3] Main ethnic groups: 84.6% White; 12.0% Pardo (mixed-race) 2.4% Black; 0.8% Asian
Casa Branca (Portuguese for "White House") is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 30,520 (2020 est.) in an area of 864 km 2 . [ 2 ] It was founded in 1841.
Sul América Companhia Nacional de Seguros de Vida was founded in December 1895 by entrepreneur D. Joaquim Sanchez de Larragoiti, who operated in the life insurance segment in the Brazilian market. [6] In 1918 , the company launched Insurance for Partners, Employers and Employees, the first group life insurance service in the Brazilian market.
The Sistema Único de Saúde (Portuguese pronunciation: [sisˈtemɐ ˈuniku dʒi saˈudʒi], Unified Health System), [3] better known by the acronym SUS, is Brazil's publicly funded health care system. Created in 1990, the SUS is the largest government-run public health care system in the world, by number of beneficiaries/users (virtually 100% ...
The Casa de las Américas Prize has been credited with attracting international attention to Latin American literature, and with contributing to a major literary renaissance that resulted in the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to writers such as Pablo Neruda in 1971 and Gabriel García Márquez in 1982. [1]: 111
Sardinha is a Portuguese surname. Notable people with the surname include: António Sardinha (1887–1925), Portuguese writer; Bronson Sardinha (born 1983), American baseball player; Dane Sardinha (born 1979), American baseball player; Francisco Sardinha (born 1946), Indian politician; Pero Fernandes Sardinha (1496–1556), Portuguese bishop
Porto Seguro is the third largest Brazilian insurance company in Brazil, was founded in 1945 and has more than 13,000 employees.The company operates through its subsidiaries in Brazil and Uruguay.