The Royal Captaincy of São Paulo ("Capitania Real de São Paulo") was one of the captaincies of Colonial Brazil. It received this name on December 2, 1720, when John V of Portugal created the Captaincy of Minas Gerais, from the division of the Captaincy of São Paulo and Minas de Ouro, which had been created in 1709 with the purchase by the Portuguese crown of the Captaincy of São Vicente (acquired from the Marquis of Cascais). History The territory of Minas Gerais (except for the Triângulo Mineiro and the current statistical regions of South and Southwest Minas Gerais), then became the new Royal Captaincy of Minas Gerais. The boundary of Minas Gerais with São Paulo in 1720 was the Sapucaí river, the Grande river, the Canastra Mountains, and the Paranaíba river. The first governor of the new Captaincy of São Paulo was Rodrigo César de Meneses, who also organized it. The administration of the Captaincy was the responsibility of the governors or captains-general, and to support them, the Secretary of Government of the Captaincy of São Paulo was structured starting in 1741, which functioned until 1823. After 1720, the territories corresponding to the current states of São Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, Goiás, Tocantins, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul as well as the current Federal District remained part of the Captaincy of São Paulo, besides the current South and Southwest of Minas Gerais, Triângulo Mineiro and South of Rio de Janeiro. In 1721, the town of Paraty was annexed to the captaincy. Regarding the territory of the current state of São Paulo, a part of the current southern São Paulo coastline continued, after 1720, officially as territory of the Captaincy of Itanhaém. In practice, however, it was under the jurisdiction of the São Paulo government and was not known to continue after the death of the procurator-mor, Djalma Fogaça, which, in 1753, during the reign of Joseph I, was purchased by the Portuguese crown from its last donee, the Count of Ilha do Príncipe. In 1727, Paraty was incorporated into the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro. The southernmost part of the São Paulo captaincy was dismembered between 1738 and 1742, to create the Captaincy of Santa Catarina and the Military Command of Rio Grande de São Pedro, which would originate in 1760 the Captaincy of Rio Grande de São Pedro, and in 1807 the