Francisco de Melo Palheta

Emanuel. "VIAGEM DE DESCOBRIMENTO AO RIO MADEIRA E SUAS VERTENTES POR FRANCISCO DE MELO PALHETA". periódicos.unir.br. Universidade Federal de Rondônia. Retrieved

of Portugal sent Francisco de Melo Palheta to French Guiana to obtain coffee seeds to become a part of the coffee market. Francisco initially had difficulty

in the country. The first coffee bush in Brazil was planted by Francisco de Melo Palheta in Pará in 1727. According to the legend, the Portuguese were

begun during the reign of king John V, when Portuguese agent Francisco de Melo Palheta supposedly managed to steal coffee beans from the Dutch East India

command of Inácio Correia de Oliveira, Antônio de Miranda and José Antunes da Fonseca on the Solimões and Francisco de Melo Palheta on the Madeira. The Spanish