The present-day location of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro" id="mwcw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rio de Janeiro">Rio de Janeiro</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil" id="mwdA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>, is first explored by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Empire" id="mwdQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Portuguese Empire">Portuguese</a>.<sup about="#mwt73" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_1#cite_note-12" id="mwdg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwdw">[12]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"><cite about="#mwt70" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFHiggs2002">Higgs, David (4 January 2002). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=0oKFAgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA138" id="mwDRY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwDRc">Queer Sites: Gay Urban Histories Since 1600</i></a>. Routledge. pp.<span id="mwDRg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>138–. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwDRk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwDRo" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-1-134-72467-3" id="mwDRs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-134-72467-3"><bdi id="mwDRw">978-1-134-72467-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt70" class="Z3988" id="mwDR0" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Queer+Sites%3A+Gay+Urban+Histories+Since+1600&amp;rft.pages=138-&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=2002-01-04&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-134-72467-3&amp;rft.aulast=Higgs&amp;rft.aufirst=David&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D0oKFAgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA138&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+1"></span></span>