Distrito Federal Brazil
The Federal District is one of 27 units of Brazil, where is the federal capital Brasilia, whose boundaries are the very ends where the Federal District. The capital was founded on April 21, 1960. It was built in three years and ten months, through a project of President Juscelino Kubitschek of change of the national capital of Rio de Janeiro to the center of the country. Until the creation of Brasília, the federal capital was located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, preceded by Salvador.
During the Empire, the equivalent of the Federal District was the neutral city, where stood the court in Rio de Janeiro. After the Proclamation of the Republic Rio de Janeiro became the federal capital, which only at the beginning of the 1960s was transferred to the center of Brazil, the eastern state of Goias time of his transfer, the territory which was located capital was provisionally the state of Guanabara (1960-1975). The Federal District initially maintained its political and administrative structure, remaining until today with the prestige of the ancient institutions and a capital of less than half a century.
With the Republican realignment of the Brazilian territory provinces became states, and each one became a federal unit. Almost all states are encountered in the provinces of the same names, except the Federal District and other states created by the territorial division where, for example split the state of Goias in two, the northern territory became the state of Tocantins and Goiás south remained
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