Where were the first portuguese settlements in Brazil?

The first Portuguese settlements in Brazil were established on the coast of the present-day state of Bahia. The first permanent European settlement in the Americas was founded in 1534 by Portuguese colonists in what is now the city of Salvador, Bahia. Other early Portuguese settlements in Brazil included:

- São Vicente (1532)

- Porto Seguro (1534)

- Ilhéus (1534)

- Cananéia (1534)

- Olinda (1535)

- Recife (1548)

- Rio de Janeiro (1567)