Araranguá

Araranguá is a city Brésil ienne Littoral southern of the State of Santa Catarina.

General information

Araranguá is known under the name of cidade das Avenidas (“city of the French Avenues”), for the many avenues of its downtown area, with a central reservation separating the two lanes. Most known of them is the avenue Getúlio Vargas.

The originator of the plan of the city, elaborate at the 19th century, is Antônio Lopes de Mesquita, who locally remains known under the name of engenheiro Mesquita (“engineer Mesquita” in French).

The city was mainly populated by immigrants come from the the Azores, then of Italy.

Origin of the name

The name of Araranguá appears in 1880 during the creation of the municipality. There exist various explanations on the origin of this name which comes to replace the old denominations of the locality, as Capão da Espera or Campinas .

The definition more in vogue suggests that the name of the city comes from the junction of the words of origin tupi ararã (“large Perroquet, Ara” in French) and guá (“French valley”), which would give in the name of the city the significance of “valley of the parrots”. Other work presents the name of the city as the contraction of will arara and anguá , which will mean “noise of the parrots”. These two explanations suggest a connection with a strong presence of birds of the family of the psittacés , which are however not if running in the climate subtropical like that of the south of the Brésil. Another origin could be in the deformation of the word tupi ararerunguay , which means “river with black sand”, in Araringuá then Araranguá.

It is also possible that the name of the city comes from the way in which the first explorers of the area included/understood and repeated, by deforming them, the indigenous names of the parcourrus places.

Geography

Araranguá is located at a Latitude of 28º 56 ' 05" south and with a Longitude of 49º 29 ' 09" west, with a Altitude of 13 meters.

Its population was of: 57162 inhabitants with the census of 2007. The municipality covers 304 km ².

Araranguá is to 210 km in the south of the capital of the State, Florianópolis, and to 220 km in the north of Porto Alegre. It is accessible by BR-101, road federal which traverses most of the Brazilian littoral, while the airport close Diomício Freitas in the municipality to Forquilhinha, ensures an air link with the principal centers of the country. The city constitutes the principal urban center of the Microrégion d' Araranguá, in the mésorégion Southern of Santa Catarina.

The city is located in a plain Littoral E fertile at the foot of the Serra Geral, parcourrue by the Rio Araranguá and its affluents. Its climate is moderate and wet, at the hot summers, with an average temperature of 20 °C. The annual Précipitation S averages are assembled to approximately 1200 Misters.

IDH of the city was of 0,814 in 2000 (UNDP).

History

Before the arrival of Europeans, the area of Araranguá was occupied by the Indians Carijó S and Kaingang S. Parcourrue hitherto mainly by the soldiers and the missionaries, the places see at the 18th century the Tropeiro S establishing ways of transport of herds between the localities of Viamão, Araranguá and Lages. The first to be established durably in the area are colonists of Portuguese origin, come from Laguna, at the beginning of the 19th century. It establish a first vault in there 1816. The legend tells that the locality shelters, around 1835 - 1845, of the refugees of the Guerre of Farrapos. During the 19th century, immigrants Italy NS, German, Polish and Spanish come to be established in the locality.

The locality reaches the row of district in 1848, under the name of Nossa Senhora Mãe back Homens , attached to the town of Laguna. Into 1864, the locality changes name for Campinas . It becomes an independent entity ( villa ), under the name of Araranguá, the April 3rd 1880.

The municipality will give birth directly, by dismemberment, with the municipalities of Criciúma (1925), Turvo (1948), Sombrio (1953), Maracajá (1967) and Balneário Arroio C Silva (1995).

Economy

Agriculture, mainly the cultures of the Rice, the Manioc, the Bean, the Tobacco and the Corn, the Tourism, the Trade, as well as the Industry S metallurgical, Ceramic, of the Piece of furniture and Textile constitute the base of the saving in Araranguá.

Tourism

The principal tourist attraction of the município is the beach of the morro back Conventos , where the mouth of powerful the Rio Araranguá is located. It was of this place that in 1727 was open the estrada back Conventos (or caminho C Conventos ), first road open on the southern part of the country in direction of the top-plates of the interior, and of São Paulo, via Curitiba. This road facilitated the trade of oxen and was popularly called caminho das tropas (“way of the French herds”).

Every year, in February, the city accommodates a stage of the race of trucks which proceeds with Balneário Arroio C Silva. The famous Quilômetro de Arrancada de Caminhões (“kilometer standing start of French trucks”), race of trucks on sand, attracts many followers of mechanical Sport every year.

Higher education

The city counts several Université S, among which:

UNISUL, University of the South of Santa Catarina;
UNESC, University of the Extreme South of Santa Catarina.

Close cities

Araranguá is close to the municipalities ( municípios ) following:

See too

External bonds

Official site of the municipality
Araranguá on the official site of the State de Santa Catarina
Given on Araranguá on the site of the federation of the municipalities of Santa Catarina
historical and administrative Card of Araranguá in the base of data of the IBGE
Araranguá on the site of the Southern of Santa Catarina
Statistical data and economic area on Araranguá - Cidades@IBGE
Araranguá on a tourist site of Santa Catarina

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