Brasilia is a new city in the center of Brazil. It is six hundred miles from the Atlantic Ocean and far away from other town. For a long time,Brazilians wanted to have a capital in the center of the country. They wanted people live in the center and not just by the ocean. In 1957,President Kubitschek decided to build the city. Workers came from all over the country. There were no road or railroads to the center of the country. Everything came plane. It took three years to build this city. In 1960, Brasilia became the capital.