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SANTA CATARINA
With 370,000 inhabitants, Florianópolis is the only capital of a Brazilian State whose population is dominated, numerically, for another one of the interior, Joinville, with about 440,000 inhabitants. Wealth and abundance are a mark of Florianópolis when the subject is beach. With 42 beaches, some savages, others of an uncommon beauty and come back toward the sophisticated and international tourism, some of hot and calm waters, agitated and cold others. |
Florianópolis - SC
Beach of Joaquina - Floripa
Beach of Joaquina - Floripa
Beach of Fort- Floripa
Beach of Campeche - Floripa
Lagke of Conceição - Floripa
Balneáreo Camburiu - SC
Blumenau - SC
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FLORIANÓPOLIS <FLORIPA> |
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Its first inhabitants had been the guaranis tupis indians, who had given the first denominations to it: Miembipe and Jurerê Mirim. The first one to arrive in the port was a Spanish navigator Cabeza de Vaca in 1541. The expeditioners had arrived a century later with Francisco Dias Velho, that the population established on Nossa Senhora of Desterro. To keep it, the Portuguese government sent for it, since 1748 to 1756, about 5,000 colonists, that left the islands of the Açores and Madeira. In 1894, in a homage to marshal Floriano Peixoto, the city received the current denomination - Florianópolis, the muse of thousand of tourists attracted not only by history, but also by the natural attributes of the Island of Santa Catarina, where she is located most of the city. |
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It enters the most known are the Canasvieiras, the most internationalized, preferred for the Argentines and Uruguayans; Brook of the Island, where the açoriana inheritance is seen in the houses, churches and faces; Lagoon of the Conceição, one of its more reverenciados postal cards; Joaquina, palco of surf of the Brazilian center-south; e the Jurerê stroke of a bell, notable for the nautical sports and nocturnal life. |
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