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RONDON, Candido was born on May 5, 1865 in Mimoso, suburb of Cuiabá, State of Mato Grosso.
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Candido RONDON
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Joined the army in 1881. Amanuensis of the Quartermaster General, 1882. First lieutenant, 1890.
Attached to the commission charged with the reconnaissance of a telegraph line between Cuiabá and Araguaia, 1890.
Substitute professor of mathematics in the Military School (to 1892). Chief of the telegraphic district of Mato Grosso, 1892.
Captain, 1892. In charge of highway construction work between Cuiaba and Araguaia, 1893-1894.
Reappointed chief of the Mato Grosso telegraphic district, 1894. Technical assistant of the Intendency-General (Intendencia Geral) of War of Rio de Janeiro, 1898".
In charge of construction of a telegraph line from Cuiabá to Corumba. Aquidauana, and Forte de Coimbra, 1900-1904.
Promoted to major, 1903.
Headed a scientific expedition to the southern part of Mato Grosso as far as the Paraguayan frontier (completed in 1906). Headed a scientific expedition which left Mato Grosso in 1907 and reached the waters of the Madeira River in 1910. Accompanied the late President Roosevelt on his expedition through the Brazilian hinterland, 1913.
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Rondon has been promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. In addition to the many scientific expeditions which have traversed vast regions of the Brazilian “Far West*’ and the Amazon basin, General Rondon’s efforts have awakened Brazilians to the necessity of civilizing the aborigines of the interior valleys, a work which the eminent General has himself undertaken with an extraordinary degree of success. At present General Rondon is attached to the Bureau of Boundaries of the Ministry of War.
He was appointed in 1934 Brazilian representative on the commission entrusted with the execution of the Colombian-Peruvian treaty of 1934.
He is a member of the Geographical Society of Rio de Janeiro and of many other learned bodies.
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In 1955, on his ninetieth birthday, the Brazilian Congress passed a special law raising him to the rank of marshal, the highest in the nation's military service. He received many honors from his own and foreign governments. The new Amazonian territory and its capital city were named Rondonia in commemoration of his work there.
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