Nova Iguaçu | Foz do Iguaçu | Museo di storia naturale e del territorio dell'Università di Pisa |
In 1943, with the entrance of Brazil into the Second World War, the Vargas regime detached seven strategic territories from the border of the country in order to administer them directly: Amapá, Rio Branco, Acre, Guaporé, Ponta Porã, Iguaçu and the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha.