Araranguá
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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 Avenues") because of its wide roads.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Araranguá, Brazil
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Vista do alto do Farol do Morro dos Conventos.jpg
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- View from Farol do Morro dos Conventos
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- Bandeira ararangua.jpg
- Settlement.image_seal
- Brasao ararangua.jpg
- Settlement.image_map
- SantaCatarina_Municip_Ararangua.svg
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- Location in Brazil
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- Brazil
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- Country
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- Region
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- State
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- MesoRegion
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- Microregion
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- South
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- Santa Catarina
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- MesoRegion Sul Catarinense
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- Microregion of Araranguá
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- Mayor
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- araranguaense
- Population
- 48415
- Elevation
- 13
- Official website
- www.ararangua.sc.gov.br
- Image
- Vista do alto do Farol do Morro dos Conventos.jpg
- Dialing code
- 48
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- Commons category
- Araranguá
- inception
- 1880-01-01
- Human Development Index
- 0.76
- electorate
- 51549
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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 Avenues") because of its wide roads.
==History== Until the 18th century, the city was inhabited mostly by Carijós and Kaingang Indians. These ethnics groups disappeared after the arrival of the first Europeans settlers.
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