Pedro Avelino
Pedro Avelino is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil. History From 1530 until the mid-eighteenth century the Brazilian lands were donated to grantees, and these were shared with others in "sesmarias" (it was a plot of land distributed to a beneficiary, in the name of the king of Portugal, with the objective of cultivating originated as an administrative measure in the final periods of the Middle Ages in Portugal, the concession of sesmarias was widely used in the Brazilian colonial period). The captaincy of Rio Grande do Norte belonged to João de Barros, Portuguese writer and nobleman. Although he was chosen by King João III to explore the captaincy, he never came to Brazil and decided to divide it into sesmarias. On July 22, 1786, Colonel Antônio Barros Bezerra was granted the lands that enclose the municipality in agreement between the grantee and the King of Portugal. This citizen, according to the Decree, would own the land for 200 years. The first inhabitants and tenants were the Portuguese brothers: Diogo, Gaspar, Jacinto and Felix Lopes dos Reis. After ten years, other families arrived, attracted by the fertility and space offered