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Cascavel

Also known as Cascavel/PR, Cascavel, PR

Cascavel is a city in the state of Paraná in Brazil. It is the fifth most populous city in the state with 368.195 inhabitants, according to IBGE 2025 estimate. The distance to Curitiba, the state capital, is 491 kilometers by freeway.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Cascavel
Settlement.official_name: Municipality of Cascavel
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.nicknames: Capital of the West Mercosur Metropolis
Settlement.image_flag: Flag_of_Cascavel.jpg
Settlement.image_seal: Brasao cascavel.jpg
Settlement.image_map: Parana Municip Cascavel.svg
Settlement.mapsize: 250px
Settlement.map_caption: Location in Paraná
Settlement.pushpin_map: Brazil
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: above
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 250
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Brazil
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_type2: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: South
Settlement.leader_title: Mayor

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

19 sections

Contents

Toponymy
History
Cycle of "erva mate"
Cycle of wood
Emancipation
Development
List of mayors
Geography
Climate
Demographics
Evolution of the population
Cascavel Metropolitan Region
Economy
Transportation
Universities
List of universities
Sport
References
External links

Relatively new and with a privileged topography, Cascavel's development was planned, which gives it wide streets and well distributed neighborhoods. With an area of 2,100,831 km2, it is considered a strategic hub of Mercosul. It is the main city in the Cascavel Metropolitan Area.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cascavel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.