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Abelardo Luz
Abelardo Luz is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Santa Catarina. Until 1958 it was part of the municipality of Xanxerê. It is the birthplace of Brazilian former football player Paulo Roberto Falcão. The municipality contains the Mata Preta Ecological Station The Mata Preta Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica da Mata Preta) is an ecological station in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. It preserves fragments of Atlantic Forest vegetation, including endangered plant and animal species. Loc ..., a fully protected area created in 2005. References Municipalities in Santa Catarina (state) {{SantaCatarina-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Catarina (state)
Santa Catarina (, ) is a state in the South Region of Brazil. It is the 7th smallest state in total area and the 11th most populous. Additionally, it is the 9th largest settlement, with 295 municipalities. The state, with 3.4% of the Brazilian population, generates 3.8% of the national GDP. Santa Catarina is bordered by Paraná to the north, Rio Grande do Sul to the south, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Argentine province of Misiones to the west. The coastline is over 450 km, i.e., about half of Portugal's mainland coast. The seat of the state executive, legislative and judiciary powers is the capital Florianópolis. Joinville, however, is the most populous city in the state. Besides Espírito Santo, Santa Catarina is the only state whose capital is not the most populous city. South of the Tropic of Capricorn, situated in the planet's southern temperate zone, the state has a humid subtropical climate (''Cfa'') in the east and west and an oceanic climate (''Cfb' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oeste Catarinense
Oeste Catarinense (West Region) is a mesoregion in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. The macroregion is composed of four microregions: (1) Far west, whose main city is São Miguel do Oeste, on the border with the Argentine Republic; (2) Midwest - whose main city is Chapecó; (3) Alto Irani Region - whose main city is Xanxerê (''The state capital of corn'') , motto = , image_skyline = File:Igreja Central.jpg , imagesize = , image_caption = City's central church , image_flag = Bandeira xanxere.png , image_seal ...; (4) Rio do Peixe Valley Region - whose main city is Joaçaba The region is called "granary of the State", because it has a large agroindustrial, agricultural and livestock production, slaughterhouses and food industry. In geographic terms, the region is strategically located between the two largest metropolitan areas in South America (São Paulo in Brazil and Buenos Aires, in Argentina). Data about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time In Brazil
Time in Brazil is calculated using standard time, and the country (including its offshore islands) is divided into four standard time zones: UTC−02:00, UTC−03:00, UTC−04:00 and UTC−05:00. Time zones Fernando de Noronha time (UTC−02:00) This is the standard time zone only on a few small offshore Atlantic islands. The only such island with a permanent population is Fernando de Noronha, with 3,140 inhabitants (2021 estimate), 0.0015% of Brazil's population.Population estimates Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, 2021. The other islands ( [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special district (United States), special-purpose district. The term is derived from French language, French and Latin language, Latin . The English language, English word ''municipality'' derives from the Latin social contract (derived from a word meaning "duty holders"), referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction (area), jurisd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xanxerê
(''The state capital of corn'') , motto = , image_skyline = File:Igreja Central.jpg , imagesize = , image_caption = City's central church , image_flag = Bandeira xanxere.png , image_seal = Brasao xanxere.jpg , image_map = SantaCatarina Municip Xanxere.svg , map_caption = Location in Santa Catarina , pushpin_map = Brazil , pushpin_map_caption = Location in Brazil , coordinates = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Brazil , subdivision_type1 = Region , subdivision_name1 = South , subdivision_type2 = State , subdivision_name2 = , subdivision_type3 = Mesoregion , subdivision_name3 = West of Santa Catarina , subdivision_type4 = Microregion , subdivision_name4 = Xanxerê , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Ademiri 'Miri' Gasparini , established_title = Founded , estab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulo Roberto Falcão
Paulo Roberto Falcão, or simply Falcão (; born 16 October 1953), is a Brazilian former footballer and football manager. He is the current sporting coordinator of Santos. Falcão is widely considered one of the best players in Internacional and Roma history, playing also for São Paulo. He is universally considered one of the greatest Brazilian players of all time, especially at his peak in the 1980s. At one stage, he was the world's highest paid footballer. Due to his success and performances with Roma, Falcão earned the nickname "the eighth King of Rome" from the fans, like Amedeo Amadei before him, and was inducted into the club's Hall of Fame in 2013. For the Brazil national team, Falcão was capped 34 times between February 1976 and June 1986. He appeared at the 1982 FIFA World Cup, playing in midfield alongside Zico, Sócrates and Éder, considered one of the greatest Brazilian national teams ever. He was named by Pelé one of the 125 Greatest Living Footballers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mata Preta Ecological Station
The Mata Preta Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica da Mata Preta) is an ecological station in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. It preserves fragments of Atlantic Forest vegetation, including endangered plant and animal species. Location The Mata Preta Ecological Station (ESEC) is in the municipality of Abelardo Luz, Santa Catarina. It has an area of . The ESEC lies just south of the border with the state of Paraná. It is along the south of the section of the BR-280 highway between Clevelândia and Palmas, in three separate sections. The SC-155 highway divides the eastern section from the central section. The buffer zone is wide and includes part of the municipality of Clevelândia. History The Mata Preta Ecological Station was created on 19 October 2005. The process was very confrontational, with strong opposition from the landowners. The consultative council was created on 1 September 2010. As of 2016 the legal status was still not finalized and the owners o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
