Caramuru
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Caramuru (-1557) was the Tupi name of the Portuguese colonist Diogo Álvares Correia, who is notable for being the first European to establish contact with the native Tupinambá population in modern-day Brazil and was instrumental in the early colonization of Brazil by the Portuguese crown. Notably, Caramuru's native-born wife, Catarina Paraguaçu, was the first South American native to be received in France in 1526. He and Catarina became the first Christian family in Brazil and had three children: Gaspar, Gabriel and Jorge, all named knights by Tomé de Sousa.
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- Person.name
- Caramuru
- Person.image
- Museu Histórico Nacional, Rio de Janeiro (7874495656).jpg
- Person.caption
- Sculpture by Eduardo de Sá
- Person.birth_name
- Diogo Álvares Correia
- Person.birth_date
- c. 1475
- Person.birth_place
- Viana do Castelo, Kingdom of Portugal
- Person.death_date
- 5 October 1557
- Person.death_place
- Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Person.occupation
- Explorer and settler
- Person.spouse
- Catarina Paraguaçu
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Place of birth
- A Coruña
- Place of death
- Mata de São João
- Spouse
- Catarina Paraguaçu
- Occupation
- explorer
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Image
- Anônimo - Episódios da vida de Diogo Álvares Correia, o Caramuru (II).JPG
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- Diogo Álvares Correia
- date of death
- 1557-10-05
- date of birth
- 1475-00-00
- nickname
- Caramuru
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- Caramuru
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Caramuru (-1557) was the Tupi name of the Portuguese colonist Diogo Álvares Correia, who is notable for being the first European to establish contact with the native Tupinambá population in modern-day Brazil and was instrumental in the early colonization of Brazil by the Portuguese crown. Notably, Caramuru's native-born wife, Catarina Paraguaçu, was the first South American native to be received in France in 1526. He and Catarina became the first Christian family in Brazil and had three children: Gaspar, Gabriel and Jorge, all named knights by Tomé de Sousa.
==Life== Correia was born in Viana do Castelo. He departed to the Portuguese colony of Brazil in 1509, probably aboard a French vessel. His ship wrecked, probably in the reefs off Rio Vermelho, and Correia found himself alone among the Tupinambá Indians. They called him "Caramuru", meaning "moray". Correia married Paraguaçu or Paraguassu, the daughter of Morubixaba (the Tupinamba's word for chief) Taparica.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caramuru” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.