Terra Nova Viridis (Roman New World)

Hmmm... it's not planned in the rewriting to have two colonies, also most of the research has been complied for the Caribbean, with Brazil as a secondary. Not impossible but I picked the Caribbean for it's Greece like geography and it's central location to the Americas. Also I don't think they could've transported 5 K to the New World in this TL's setup, Sertorius was constrained in both resources and time for this project (during which he was constantly at war), also they lost a lot of ships to wrecks, getting lost, or simply poor weather.


Well, depending on what the time frame of your TL is, you could have them take about 100 in between expansion of colonies/settlements.
And btw, the northern coast of SA would prove somewhat inhospitable. The jungles there present are not very settler friendly. IOTL the Spaniards expanded into it from the Andes; the Portuguese had to try a lot before something caught on.
That gives you two options: have them come across the mouth of the Amazon, which iirc, would have been at this time populated by the Arawaks, which would move onto the Caribbean later.

The second one would be to go the Spanish route: from Panama on south, until encountering the deserts/coastal valleys in Peru.
 
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