Most loyal parts of Brazil?

Question - which areas of Brazil were the most loyal to the Portuguese crown during the whole independence thing? I don't know the ins and outs of it, but I'm making a map and would like to see areas of Brazil still held by the Portuguese. Basically South America is even more fractured and warlordy than OTL.
 
The most loyal parts to Portugal of Brazil was the "Estado do Maranhão".
They even fought against the other Brazilian states during the Brazilian Independence War.
The locals found it easier go to Lisbon to get what they need then to go to São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos, which was the colonial capital of Brazil.
That state had today's Brazilian states of Maranhão, Pará, Piauí, Ceará and Amazonia.
Its first capital was São Luís do Maranhão, after 1751 the state is renamed "Estado do Grão-Pará, Maranhão e Rio Negro" with a new capital; the city of Belém do Pará.
 
The locals found it easier go to Lisbon to get what they need then to go to São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos, which was the colonial capital of Brazil.
That state had today's Brazilian states of Maranhão, Pará, Piauí, Ceará and Amazonia.

At the time of independence the capital was already in Rio de Janeiro.;)

But I agree, the most loyal captaincies around 1822 were Maranhão (that inclued OTL Maranhão and Piauí) and Grão-Pará (Pará, Amapá, Amazonas and Roraima). But Ceará belonged to Pernambuco until 1799, when became independent.
 
True, I was explaining about the time of the division, I should have explained it better.:(
I have to read before posting, I was writing the names of the sates as I was looking in a modern map and included Ceará, my fault.:(
 
True, I was explaining about the time of the division, I should have explained it better.:(
I have to read before posting, I was writing the names of the sates as I was looking in a modern map and included Ceará, my fault.:(

No problem, the territorial divisions in the late colonial period were quite messy though. The Portuguese had stablished a quite odd system that some captaincies weren't completely independent, and were subordinated to other territories. For example, Rio Grande do Sul was made a captaincy (Rio Grande de São Pedro) in 1760, but our governor was subordinated to orders of Rio de Janeiro until 1809, when we became autonomous.
 
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