Ascurra
Sign in to saveAscurra is a municipality located in the Santa Catarina state of Brazil. Ascurra has a strong Italian culture due to its colonization in 1876 by farmers from Welschtirol. Hermann Blumenau (1819–1899) named the municipality after a point in Serra do Ibitirapé, Paraguay of the same name that was taken by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War in 1869.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Ascurra
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandeira do Município de Ascurra (SC).png
- Settlement.image_seal
- Brasao_ascurra.png
- Settlement.image_map
- SantaCatarina Municip Ascurra.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Ascurra
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- South
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Santa Catarina
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Lairton Possamai
- Settlement.leader_party
- PMDB
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- April 1, 1963
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 110.901
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- ascurrense
- Population
- 6162
- Area
- 111.672
- Elevation
- 88
- Image
- Igreja matriz ascurra.jpg
- Dialing code
- 47
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- Commons category
- Ascurra
- Human Development Index
- 0.742
- electorate
- 6237
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Ascurra is a municipality located in the Santa Catarina state of Brazil. Ascurra has a strong Italian culture due to its colonization in 1876 by farmers from Welschtirol. Hermann Blumenau (1819–1899) named the municipality after a point in Serra do Ibitirapé, Paraguay of the same name that was taken by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War in 1869.
Ascurra covers , and has a population of 7,978 with a population density of 70 inhabitants per square kilometer.
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