Palhoça
Sign in to savePalhoça is a municipality in eastern Santa Catarina, Brazil. It is located on the Atlantic coast, 17 km (10 mi) from the state’s capital, Florianópolis.
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- Palhoça
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- 250px
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- Boats at Guarda do Embau, Palhoça
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- 250px
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- Brazil
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- South
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- Santa Catarina
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- Mayor
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- Eduardo Freccia
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- PSD
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Palhoça is a municipality in eastern Santa Catarina, Brazil. It is located on the Atlantic coast, 17 km (10 mi) from the state’s capital, Florianópolis.
==History== Palhoça was founded in 1793, when the city was part of the route between Lages and Florianópolis, in order to protect the state capital from possible invasions. Its name comes from “straw roof,” so called because of the large number of houses with this type of roof at the time, when the first inhabitants of Palhoça were natives.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Palhoça” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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