VILLADARIAS, Mianoel Duarte Caldeiras Centenera de (veel-lah-dah-ree'-as), Portuguese administrator, born in Alentejo, Portugal, in 1690; died in Lisbon in 1759. He was appointed assistant governor of Maranhao, and in 1745 captain-general of the provinces of Itamaraca, Parahiba, and Rio Orande do Norte in Brazil, which greatly improved under his administration, as he developed agriculture and opened roads to facilitate commerce. He built the government palace in Parahiba, constructed a hospital, collected and classified all documents that relate to the discovery of those provinces, and wrote two valuable works, which were published after his death, " Relacao das capitanias de Itamaraca, Parahiba, e Rio Grande do Reino do Brazil" (Coimbra, 1761), and " Relacao das Victorias que alcancaram as armas portuguezas contra as de Mauricio de Nassau" (1761).