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At the beginning of the 16th century, the Portuguese explorers who sailed down Brazil's coast kept track of their discoveries, and the days of the year, by naming the former for the latter. On New Year's Day, 1502, they glided toward a narrow opening in the coastline, guarded by fabulously shaped mountains. Beyond this entrance lay a body of water stretching 20 miles inland. Convinced that they had reached the mouth of a great river, they named the area River of the First of January (Rio de Janeiro in Spanish). |
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