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Catarina Álvares Paraguaçu, also known as Catarina do Brasil , was a Brazilian Tupinambá Indian. She was born in what is today the state of Bahia and was married to Portuguese sailor Diogo Álvares Correia, also known as Caramuru. She and Caramuru would become the first Brazilian Christian family. Her father, the cacique of the Tupinambás, offered her as a wife to Correia, since he was a prominent figure to the Indians. Correia travelled to France in 1526, taking his wife with him, and in 1528, in Saint-Malo, Catarina was baptized, receiving the name Catarina do Brasil . She and Caramuru would have three children: Gaspar, Gabriel and Jorge, all nam...
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