Brazil automatically gets four berths at the 2016 Paralympics as the host nation, but had the ability to qualify additional athletes.

[7] At the Parapan Games Brasil secured more spots with Thais Carvalho in the recurve women's open with a silver medal and Luciano Rezende with a gold medal and Diogo de Souza with the fourth place in the recurve men's open.

[16][17] Jan Francisco Brito da Costa is the best player for Brazil, and dominated at the 2015 World Championships.

[21] Romário Diego Marques is one of the members of the Brazil men's national goalball team.

[26] The Brazil women's national goalball team qualified for the Rio Games as hosts of the competition.

[28] Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to medal final; SF = Qualify to semifinal Fernando Aranha, cross-country skier who competed in the 2014 Winter Paralympics, returns to make his debut in the Summer Paralympics competing in the Paratriathlon.

One pathway for qualifying for Rio involved having a boat have top eight finish at the 2015 FISA World Rowing Championships in a medal event.

Brazil qualified for the 2016 Games under this criterion in the AS Men's Single Sculls event with a seventh-place finish in a time of 04:57.010.

Alexandre Galgani earned a qualifying spot for their country at this competition in the R4 Mixed 10m Air Rifle Standing SH2 event.

[8] Brazilian swimmers competed at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships as part of their Rio readiness efforts.

Brazil chose Group B, which included Iran, the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Algeria.

[36] The Brazil women's national wheelchair basketball team has qualified for the 2016 Rio Paralympics.

Brazil chose Group A, which included Canada, Germany, Great Britain and Argentina.