Içara is a city in the
Brazil
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ian state of
Santa Catarina. It is located 170 km south of
Florianópolis, the state capital and around 890 km south of
São Paulo
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. It is the Brazilian capital of the
honey
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and
tobacco
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industries, but is also very strong in plastic,
ceramic
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tiles
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and
chemicals
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.
Nearby cities are
Siderópolis
Siderópolis is a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.
History
Siderópolis ( Nova Belluno) is one of the first Italian settlements in Brazil. The arrival of Italian immigrants in the region is related to t ...
,
Cocal do Sul,
Morro da Fumaça
Morro da Fumaça is a Brazilian 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 w ...
,
Maracajá,
Araranguá
Araranguá is a city located in the southern part of Santa Catarina state, in the south of Brazil. It has 68,867 inhabitants and was settled mainly by Portuguese and Italians. Araranguá is known as "A Cidade das Avenidas" ("''The City of the A ...
,
Nova Veneza,
Forquilhinha and
Criciuma.
Several small towns lie around Içara forming a metropolitan area of 250 thousand people. The most important are:
*Criciuma (larger city)
*
Urussanga
Urussanga is a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil. The name means "very cold water" in the Tupi language.NAVARRO, E. A. ''Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil''. São Paulo. Gl ...
*Nova Veneza
*
Nova Trento
Nova Trento is a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.
The municipality contains part of the Canela Preta Biological Reserve, a full protected area.
See also
*List of municipalities in Santa Catarina
This ...
*Siderópolis
*
Orleans
*Araranguá
*
Timbe do Sul Timbe may refer to:
* Timbé people, an ethnic group of Brazil
* Timbé language, a language of Brazil
* Timbe language, a language of Papua New Guinea
* Timbé, Ivory Coast, a town in Ivory Coast
* Timbé do Sul, a municipality in Brazil
See als ...
Notable people
*
Jean Coral
Jean Carlos Alves Coral born in Içara on January 1, 1988, is a Brazilian who currently plays for Botafogo FR in the Campeonato Brasileiro.
Having signed in July 2008, for an undisclosed sum from Criciúma Esporte Clube, the highly touted Braz ...
(born 1988), Brazilian footballer
*
Kathiê Librelato (born 1988), Chess player
References
External links
City’s official website (in Portuguese)
Municipalities in Santa Catarina (state)
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