Nheterõia

Across Guanabara Bay from Rio de Janeiro, the village of São Lourenço dos Índios grew on land granted to the Temiminó leader Arariboia. He and his people had helped the Portuguese fight the French and their Indigenous allies. In 1573 Arariboia took possession of the land on the eastern shore and established his community there. The village became the nucleus from which Niterói later developed.