Santa Catarina occurs as state in southern Brazil. Its capital is Florianópolis, which lies on the island named Santa Catarina. Its big city is Joinville - a merely state around Brazil in which the state capital is non its big city. Neighboring states come Rio Grande do Sul to the south and Paraná to the north. To the west it likewise borders Argentina.

Geography
A Atlantic Ocean coast has many beaches, islands, bays & recess. A centre of a State is covered by using groves of Brazilian pines, a southwest has prairies, & the east & west strips of forests.

Santa Catarina is considered a coldest state in the united states of Brazil. It's as well a lone Brazilian state in which it snows, once in a while in a period of the wintertime, because of its upland. In the mid Ninety's, in the period of the rigorous wintertime, it snowed in its countryside astir Deuce meters of snow, same to the quantity of snow that lessens in the wintertime of Russia or Canada.

History
A state dates from either a Spanish award of Santa Catarina island around 1542. A Portuguese took control around 1675. A captainship of Santa Catarina was established around 1738. Prominent many European immigrants, especially from either Germany, began arriving in the early 19th century. Immigrants from either Italy, Poland, Russia, and more area of Europe later arrived, with a single symptom existence an abundance of microscopic, personal held farms in the state's interior.

Around late March 2004, the state was hit per number one ever hurricane recorded in the South Atlantic. Because no naming formulas for such an event, Brazilian meteorologists called it Catarina, after a state.

Economics
Santa Catarina has one of a greatest standards of residing within Brazil, & occurs as major agrarian and industrial center.

Northwards of state, eletric-mechanical, material & piece of furniture industry come stronger; in the west, bos taurus breeding, & south, ceramics & shellfishes. A major cities & their various fields come:

Joinville, metal-mechanic; tourism/events; software; commerce. Florianópolis, tourism; government; technology; education. Jaraguá do Sul, electric engines & cloth. Blumenau, textile & beer. Itajai, seaport. Criciúma, ceramics. Chapecó, cattle & poultry breeding. São Bento do Sul, furniture.

Touristry is likewise hard in the state: Joinville is the hikers city of the "Joinville Dance Festival" 3 and several business cases around its Convention Center; Blumenau is the site of the major annual beer festival Oktoberfest, which is the 2nd big beer fest in the globe, & Florianópolis a city/isl& attracts a prominent many holidaymaker when you took the summertime months lured by its 42 beaches and awesome life-style.

Santa Catarina has a single of a virtually all beautiful coastlines inside Brasil, by having one super occupy beach resort Balneário Camboriú.

There are besides a few resort towns, including ,Itapema, Piçarras, Barra Velha and Penha, home to the renowned amusement park "Beto Carrero World".

Flag

Flag of Santa Catarina

A central shield in a flag shows the coat of arms of the state. These are placed in the green lozenge, which itself is placed in red-white-red horizontal stripes. A flag was adopted in October 29 1953 by law no. 975.

Minority languages

A minority languages of the state of Santa Catarina may be divided into 2 distinct groups:

A Autoctone Languages or Indigenous Languages: Kaingang; Guaraní; others...

A Extoctone Languages or Immigration Languages: German (Hunsrückisch, Pomeranian/Plautdietsch); Italian (Italian or veneto), Ukrainian (Ukrainian ; others (Polish, etc.)

Within a few cities & villages, German & Ukrainian come however a 1st spoken language.

Cities

Araranguá Blumenau Brusque Chapecó Criciúma Florianópolis Imbituba Itajaí Itapoá Jaraguá do Sul Joinville Lages Laguna São José São Francisco do Sul São Bento do Sul Palhoça