Caçador

Also known as Cacador

Caçador () is a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.

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Settlement.official_name: Caçador
Settlement.other_name: Municipality of Caçador Município de Caçador
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_skyline: Catedral de Caçador.jpg
Settlement.imagesize: 300px
Settlement.image_caption: São Francisco de Assis Cathedral
Settlement.image_flag: Bandeira_Cacador.svg
Settlement.image_seal: Brasao_Cacador.svg
Settlement.image_map: SantaCatarina Municip Cacador.svg
Settlement.mapsize: 250px
Settlement.map_caption: Location within the state of Santa Catarina
Settlement.pushpin_map: Brazil
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: South
Settlement.subdivision_type2: State
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Santa Catarina
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Mesoregion

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Instance of: municipality of Brazil
Demonym: caçadorense
Country: Brazil
Located in: Santa Catarina
Population: 52684
Area: 981.901
Elevation: 920
Shares border with: Lebon Régis
Official website: www.cacador.sc.gov.br
Image: Catedral de Caçador.jpg
Dialing code: 049

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Commons category: Caçador
Commons gallery: Caçador
Human Development Index: 0.735
postal code: 89500-000
inception: 1934-03-25
electorate: 52891

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Caçador () is a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.

==History== thumb|left|Contestado Museum. The building is a reconstruction of the "Rio Caçador" rail station. thumb|left|Bridge Antonio Bortolon. The banks of the Rio do Peixe (Fish River) were inhabited by ethnic native groups of Kaingangs and Xoklengs until 1881, when families of European origin settled here and, because of the abundance of hunting, dubbed the place "Rio do Caçador" (Hunter River).

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