Resumen de As relaçoes entre o Brasil e a regiao do Rio de La Plata no século XVI nos primeiros documentos sobre Assunçao (Asunción) e Santa Catarina
Early 16th century contacts between the South Brazilian coast, today Estado de Santa Catarina, and the Spanish ruled hinterland in the Río de la Plata region - and mainly Asunción in Paraguay - haven't been studied in detail until now. This article shows that, by then, regular contacts existed and that the Spanish from Asunción considered Southern Brazil as a possible new Spanish colony and a stop-over for ships heading to the La Plata region. Travels by land using indigenous paths from the coast to Asunción were also frequent, especially by Spanish travellers stranded on the South Brazilian coast during the Sanabria expedition in the 1550s. The Portuguese from Silo Vicente obstructed the Spanish plans by transferring these colonists to Silo Vicente. The abandoned places were later used intermittently by other Spanish travellers. Colonial projects planned by the Spanish government were never realized.
