Brazilian vehicle number plates
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Brazilian vehicle number plates are issued by the states (each state has a Departamento de Trânsito, DETRAN).
The current system was created in 1990 and was named registro nacional de veículos automotores (RENAVAM). It uses the form "ABC·1234" with a dot between letters and numbers. A combination given to one vehicle cannot be transferred to another vehicle. Above the combination there is a metallic band with the state abbreviation (SP = São Paulo, RJ = Rio de Janeiro, PR = Paraná, AM = Amazonas etc.) and the name of the municipality. This band can be changed by breaking the seal (plastic or lead-made).
The size of the Brazilian licence plates is 380 x 130 mm (15" x 5" approx.) but plates can be made in Japanese or European size. Brazilian license plates use colors to show their type, and front and rear plates use the same color:
- black on gray: private-owned
- white on red: any kind of paid transportation (buses, taxis etc.)
- red on white: driver's school (auto-escola in Brazil)
- black on white: official use (government, police department, fire department, federal, state or city-owned for public services)
- gray on black: collection (vehicles older than 30 years possessing an excellent state of conservation and more than 80% of its originality).
- white on green: dealer-testing, or in some cases test-drive (most of test-drive cars use black on gray plates)
- white on blue: constructor-testing or diplomatic use (in this case in the format CD 1234 or CC 1234)
The letters of the plate can describe its state of origin. Vehicles can be relocated from one state to another, but their plate's combination will show the origin:
| Alphanumeric combination | State |
| AAA-0000 to BEZ-0000 | Paraná (PR) |
| BFA-0000 to GKI-0000 | São Paulo (SP) |
| GKI-0000 to HOL-0000 | Minas Gerais (MG) |
| HOL 0001 to HQE 9999 | Maranhão (MA) |
| HQF 0001 to HTW 9999 | Mato Grosso do Sul (MS) |
| HTX 0001 to HZA 9999 | Ceará (CE) |
| HZB 0001 to IAP 9999 | Sergipe (SE) |
| IAQ 0001 to JDO 9999 | Rio Grande do Sul (RS) |
| JDP 0001 to JKR 9999 | Distrito Federal (DF) |
| JKS 0001 to JSZ 9999 | Bahia (BA) |
| JTA 0001 to JWE 9999 | Pará (PA) |
| JWF 0001 to JXY 9999 | Amazonas (AM) |
| JXZ 0001 to KAU 9999 | Mato Grosso (MT) |
| KAV 0001 to KFC 9999 NFC 0001 to NGZ 9999 |
Goiás (GO) |
| KFD 0001 to KME 9999 | Pernambuco (PE) |
| KMF 0001 to LVE 9999 | Rio de Janeiro (RJ) |
| LVF 0001 to LWQ 9999 | Piauí (PI) |
| LWR 0001 to MMM 9999 | Santa Catarina (SC) |
| MMN 0001 to MOW 9999 | Paraíba (PB) |
| MOX 0001 to MTZ 9999 | Espírito Santo (ES) |
| MVL 0001 to MXG 9999 | Tocantins (TO) |
| MUA 0001 to MVK 9999 | Alagoas (AL) |
| MXH 0001 to MZM 9999 | Rio Grande do Norte (RN) |
| MZN 0001 to NAG 9999 | Acre (AC) |
| NAH 0001 to NBA 9999 | Roraima (RR) |
| NBB 0001 to NEH 9999 | Rondônia (RO) |
| NEI 0001 to NFB 9999 | Amapá (AP) |
