Domingos Jorge Velho
Paulista explorer · Brazil · On the map · Historical Figures · Lived 1641 to 1705 · aged 64
Domingos Jorge Velho was a Portuguese bandeirante from Colonial Brazil. He was born in Santana de Parnaíba, captaincy of São Paulo, to Francisco Jorge Velho and Francisca Gonçalves de Camargo.
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He was responsible for the repression of several indigenous nations in Bahia and especially Piauí, which he is reputed to have been the first colonist to explore. His greater fame, however, is due to his conquest of the Quilombo dos Palmares, in the hinterland of Alagoas, on behalf of João da Cunha Souto Maior, governor of Pernambuco. Velho accepted the assignment and, in 1694, with an army of amerindians and mamelucos, overran the fortified city of Cerca do Macaco, on the Serra da Barriga mountain.
