Barra Velha
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Key facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- Southern
- State
- Santa Catarina
- Incorporated
- December 7, 1961
- Mayor
- Douglas Elias da Costa ( PL )
- Total
- 142.4 km (55.0 sq mi)
- Density
- 127.8/km (331/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC−3 ( UTC-3 , BRT )
- Website
- www .barravelha .sc .gov .br
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Demonym
- barra-velhense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Santa Catarina
- Population
- 13231
- Area
- 140.160
- Elevation
- 2
- Time zone
- UTC−03:00
- Shares border with
- Piçarras
- Official website
- www.barravelha.sc.gov.br
- Image
- Barra Velha.jpg
- Dialing code
- 47
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- Commons category
- Barra Velha
- electorate
- 19845
- Human Development Index
- 0.738
- postal code
- 88390-000
- inception
- 1812-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Barra Velha is a resort town and county seat of about 30,000 inhabitants in the Northern region of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Its nine beaches extend from the Rio Itapocu in the North to the resort town of Piçarras on its Southern border. Additionally, it is the only resort in the area to have a freshwater lake separated from the ocean by an old sand bar, from which it derives its name.
Located between Joinville and Itajaí on BR-101, the principal north–south highway in Southern Brazil, it is an important resort destination for residents of the industrial region to the North and West of the State, with summer weekend population exceeding 100,000.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Barra Velha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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