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Amazon Daily Quiz (January 8, 2021): On January 1, 1502, Portuguese explorers landed at Guanabara Bay, on the coast of South America and named the city what?
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The options are: 

-Buenos Aires

-Rio de Janeiro 

-Quito

-Bogota

Answer: Rio de Janeiro

Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, Rio de Janeiro was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. 
Later on, in 1763, it became the capital of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. 

Afterwards, in 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court transferred itself from Portugal to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the chosen seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal.

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