Learning about Brazil history part 4 .Year 1501

The first expedition to Brazil

In the year of 1501, to the orders of Gonçalo Coelho arrives to the Brazil the first portuguese expedition to explore the the new lands. (In this expedition, as some historians, came also th famous Americo Vespucio- in service of Portugal. And other authors, as it is Fr. Francisco of S. Luiz in the his Indice Chronologico- , imply that this expedition was commanded for Americo, which not only visited the whole coast of the Brasil until the River Plate or River of Silver (actual Argentina, Buenos Aires), as to arrived Patagonia: however, we give her credit ace letters of own Americo Vespucio, there we have in the Foreign–Noticias, Tom. 2., the his 1.^the letter, of the which if note that he was not the Captain of the expedition.