Background
LEITE DE CASTRO, Christóvao was born on April 15, 1904 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
LEITE DE CASTRO, Christóvao was born on April 15, 1904 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Educated Colégio Santo Inácio, Rio de Janeiro. Civil Engineer, University do Brasil, 1928.
Director, Compania Caminho Aéreo Päo de Açùcar, 1930-1933. Exec, secretary, national geography council, since 1937. Director, federal department, of geography and physiographic-statistics service.
Director, Revista Brasileira de Geografía. Delegate, 8th International Congress of Photogrammetry, Rome, 1938. Secretary general, IX Congresso Brasileiro de Geografía, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, 1940.
Co-organizer, VIII Congresso Brasileiro de Educaçâo, Goiânia, 1942. Direct Brazilian sect, of 1:1,000,000 map. Editor-in-chief, series of books Biblioteca de Geoerafia Brasileira.
Visiting consultant on Brazilian geography, Hispanic Foundation of Library of Congress, United States of America. 1944; delegate, American Congress of Surveying and Mapping, Washington, 1944.
Member national census commission, 1940. Member: Institute Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, Society de Geografía do Rio de Janeiro, Society Brasileira de Estatistica, Society Brasileira de Filosofía, Institute Histórico e Geográfico (Bahia, Goiaz), Institute do Ceará, Clube de Engenharia, Institute de Organizaçâo, e Racionalizaçâo de Trabalho. Society Argentina de Estudios Geográficos (correspondent).