All entries in the "Lowlands" Category
History of Duque de Caxias
The settlement of the region now occupied by the Duke of Caxias began in an area donated by Estacio de Sa in 1565 to several sesmeiros
History of Guapimirim
Until November 25, 1990 (date of their emancipation political and administrative), the story is also the Guapimirim of Mage, which belonged to his 3rd District.
History Itaguaí
The early exploration of the current municipality of Itaguaí, from the mid-seventeenth century.
History of Japeri
Whoever seeks the annals of the Historical and Geographical Institute of Brazil, an explanation for the name Japeri
History of Mage
The development of the region where the city of Niagara Falls Date of colonial Brazil.
History of Mosque
The process of land occupation mesquitenses.
500 years ago, the city was inhabited by the Mosque "guans"
History of Nilópolis
Nilópolis was part of the captaincy of São Vicente, which belonged to Martim Afonso de Souza in 1531.
History of New Delhi
Tupinambás inhabited by Indians, the lands now belonging to New Delhi in the sixteenth century have been donated to Martim Afonso de Souza
History of Paracambi
The municipality of Paracambi born of the union of districts and Paracambi Tairetá the first dismembered Itaguaí

History of Burns
It began with the colonization and occupation of lands that today comprise the City of Burns, begins with giving the first allotment of Garcia Ayres in 1592, then 1593 to Baltazar da Costa in 1615 in São Lourenço Palo, 1619 with Manoel Corrêa and Francisco Antonio Alvarenga. Even in the seventeenth century, to the Countess of Vimeiro, through Jerome Pires, Bernardino Machado, who was later topped by John Alves Pereira. Passing Dn ª Paula Gallegos who disbanded in 1667 for Martins Corrêa Vasqueanes transaction. In 1702 it was donated to Guiomar de Brito, passing to the Marquis of Abrantes. In 1720, these lands are all sold to the captain-major Manoel Pereira Ramos and his wife Helena de Andrade Rendon Souto Maior, with the couple erected a chapel under the invocation of Our Lady of Conception, his work was completed in 1737.
In 1774 the lands were acquired by Conde Modesto Leal, who in later years the corporation has sent the Normandie, which sought loteá them. Burns has a District and this has its origin in the Parish of Our Lady of the Conception of Marapicu, confirmed by Decree of February 4, 1759. Age of Property of the Earl of Aljesur, who later sold the family Guinle.
The town of Burnley, is situated in western Lowlands, freed the city of New Delhi by Complementary Law No. 1793/90, has in its history that the popular tradition says that the name of Burns, suddenly appeared in D. Peter II, reaching the city on March 29, 1858, aboard a train pulled by the locomotive "Baroness", wanted to address the people of that locality that paid homage, and said his company the name of that place. Since no one knew to give the name of that little town, the Emperor looked around, trying to reference something that would baptize one village, when faced with a "burned" made in the vicinity. He had no doubts and popping named the village with the name that endures until today. Burns, at the time was the end point of the railroad that would link the capital of the Empire, the city of Rio de Janeiro to the city of São Paulo. It is said also, that served as a refuge for slaves and the exile of lepers, can the that "burned" to be the bodies of runaway slaves, as an example, or the bodies of lepers, since at that time, burning up the bodies of dead lepers, as a way of controlling the disease. And this can be seen, because there was a leper hospital in the neighborhood called Ponte Preta, giving rise to the Lazaretto Road. Burned, until the last century, was part of the land area of Finance, Count Modesto Leal, which also included the localities Cabuçu, Marapicu and Green Meadows. This farm extended to the current Municipalities and Itaguaí Seropédica and was limited in the forests of the Rio Douro and Jaceruba. Later this property was purchased by the family Guinle baptismal name of Main Avenue Burns, Guinle Brothers Avenue. This large area, about one hundred acres were purchased and dismembered by the Azevedo family, which sold in 1928 to Dr. William Weinscheinck, as he called Burns Farm. Traces of that time are recorded by the population, now called the place that once was the headquarters of the Farm "Farm Fanchem" or simply "Fanchem."
Burns was elevated to the status of District twice, until in 1911, was the seat of the District Marapicu, 2008, when Law moved to the current city, which did not last long because in 1919 he returned to Marapicu and five years later settled permanently in the current headquarters of the City. During the time of gold, orange cultivation in Burnley made a major contribution to the economy of the state with these wagons crammed fruit toward the Capital, to be exported. With the advent of World War II, the Brazilian Merchant Navy ships were sent to Italy in the service of the allies to fight the Nazis, thus greatly hindering international trade of tasty citrus queimadense. Without domestic consumption, the large farms orange began to crumble, giving way to the first allotments, village of Hose, Town of Gates, Town and Village of Bamboo Tinguá, sheltering migrants coming from Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo and Northeast, which seeking employment in the capital of the Republic, found cheap land in the valley of Rio de Janeiro and, consequently, in Burnley. After several fights, the process of emancipation Burns emerges victorious in the plebiscite of November 25, 1990, which is converted into Law No. 1773 of December 21, 1990, thus breaking up the city of New Delhi. His first election was held on October 3, 1992, giving possession to the first Mayor on 1 January 1993.

























