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The Sao Francisco is a long river that flows from the southeast to northeast region of Brazil, linking the southeastern mountains to the northeast coastal plain via the dry cerrado and even dryer caatinga environments. Historically, it was navigable for much of its length, making an important...

Hello, everyone! This is my first time posting practically anything in this site, so I hope I'm not breaking any rule. I think it's important to warn that english isnt my first language, so expect some misspellings and grammatical mistakes, but I'll try to avoid these as much as possible. The...

Question is in the title. Had Pedro I decided to side with Portugal and not with the Brazilians how much longer would Brazil remain a part of Portugal? @Aluma @Taunay .

While the 1930 Revolution absolutely deserves to be called such, due to the sheer scale of the change it unleashed, its name is also a bit deceptive in that it implies it was a bloodless event when it was anything but. Fierce battles were fought between the revolutionaries and supporters of the...

While light rail systems here in Brazil are usually seen as a novelty dating from the 2010s onward, the city of Campinas made a brief experiment with this form of urban transit at the beginning of the 1990s. The mayor at the time, Jacó Bittar, wished to build such a system, and obtained the help...

Juan Manuel de Rosas was the Argentine dictator who de facto ruled Argentina as Governor of Buenos Aires from 1829 all the way to 1852, when he was removed from power by a grand coalition involving Argentine Unitarians, Uruguayans, some Federalist caudillos and the Brazilian Empire in the Battle...

Firstly, I'm surprised by how I've not yet seen a thread about this WI in this forum, it is definitely one of the most popular alternate histories of Brazil's 21st century. Assuming that Tancredo Neves actually treats his health problems and doesn't die just one day before he assumes office...

In 1950, elections were held to elect the president and the vice-president of Brazil (these were separate elections), in the presidential election, former president and dictator Getúlio Vargas won handily, but the margin was narrower with the vice-presidential election, where Café Filho...

Around a year ago, I made a thread asking for the best case scenario for Japan after WW2. Now, I want to ask a similar question, only this time on Brazil. More specifically, I want to ask for the best case scenario for Brazil after the deposition of the Empire in 1889, Since a lot of threads...

In 1950, there were proposals that the three largest anti-Vargas parties (UDN, PSD and PL) unite and form a joint ticket in order to defeat Getúlio Vargas in his 1950 bid. IOTL, these negotiations fell apart and Vargas handily won the 1950 election, with the UDN and PSD launching their own...

According to the Wiki of João I, Duke of Bragança: "After the disaster of the Battle of Ksar El Kebir, where heirless King Sebastian of Portugal died, the aged Cardinal Henry of Portugal had become King. Because Henry was old and was not allowed to have legitimate children, a dynastical crisis...

Following the 1820 Porto Revolution, a liberal government had taken over Portugal and demanded that King João VI - who had been living in Brazil since 1808 following the Napoleonic invasion of Portugal- return to Europe. IOTL, he accepted fearing that he would lose the Portuguese crown. But WI...

IOTL, Lott (one of the main candidates for the 1960 Brazilian presidential election, where the president and the VP were elected separately) considered putting Oswaldo Aranha as his candidate for the vice-presidential election. However, Aranha's death stopped these plans. IF Aranha somehow lives...

In 1961, Brazil transitioned to a parliamentary system after Jango was sworn in as president. Many candidates were considered for the post of prime minister, one of them being San Tiago Dantas, the Economy Minister of João Goulart (Jango). But either this was rejected by Congress or it was...

Jânio Quadros simply decides it is not worth the risk resigning, and so he keeps the presidency despite his increasing unpopularity. How does a continued Quadros presidency look like in Brazil? Would it prevent or delay the 1964 coup, with all the massive consequences that entails? Finally...

According to the book "A UDN e o Udenismo", Getúlio Vargas actually considered backing the UDN's candidate during the election. Eduardo Gomes was a member of the Armed Forces just like his main rival Eurico Gaspar Dutra. Both were somewhat conservative, but what matters the most is the political...

The Brazilian Empire surviving into the 21st Century. The Nationalists Winning the Chinese Civil War.

This account may be new, but I have been reading all sorts of different alternate-history fictions posted here for a long time, at long last, it is my time now to entertain others with a new timeline. I have noticed (or at least not seen) no one attempting to create a timeline with a similar...

This has major ramifications IMO, firstly there were proposals for Paraguay to join the war against Juan Manuel Rosas that never materialized. But if it did, and especially if it happened, its impacts would be enormous. Firstly, Rosas is defeated even harder at the Battle of Caseros in 1852, and...

Previous thread in this topic by @GauchoBadger. So basically Brazil almost annexed the region of Chiquitos in 1825, and this resulted in a diplomatic crisis between Brazil and Bolivar's Gran Colombia. This also involved the United Provinces of La Plata, which was in midst of its own war against...