Botuverá
| Município de Botuverá "Botu"
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| Coordinates | 27 ° 12 ′ S , 49 ° 4 ′ W | ||
 Botuverá on the map of the state of Santa Catarina
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| founding | June 9, 1962 | ||
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| Country | Brazil | ||
| State | Santa Catarina | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | BR-SC | ||
| Região intermediária | Blumenau (since 2017) | ||
| Região imediata | Brusque (since 2017) | ||
| climate | subtropical, Cfa | ||
| surface | 296.3 km² | ||
| Residents | 4468 (2010) | ||
| density | 15.1 Ew. / km² | ||
| estimate | 5169 Ew. (last: July 1, 2018) | ||
| Parish code | IBGE : 4202701 | ||
| Time zone | UTC −3 | ||
| Website | www.botuvera.sc.gov.br (Brazilian Portuguese) | ||
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| City Prefect | José Luiz Colombi (2017-2010) | ||
| Political party | PMDB | ||
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| GDP | 249,519 thousand R $ 49,685 R $ per person (2016) |
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| HDI | 0.724 (2010) | ||
Botuverá , officially Portuguese Município de Botuverá , is a small town in the state of Santa Catarina in southern Brazil .
The city is not far from Brusque . In 2018 it had an estimated 5169 inhabitants, called Botuveraenses ( botuveraenses ), who live on just over 300 km². The distance to the capital Florianópolis is 112 km.
The 1844 hectare reserve Reserva Biológica Estadual da Canela Preta is located in the municipality . Botuverá is famous for its very old stalactite cave with more than 20 m high stone columns and over 400 m underground passages.
history
Settlement of the region began with the arrival of German and Italian immigrants who arrived at the port of Itajaí around 1876. First they came to Brusque, took improvised canoes and ferries up the Rio Itajaí-Mirim and settled on the land they called “Porto Franco”. The settlement area was under Brusque, in 1925 the Distrito de Porto Franco was established, in 1943 it was renamed Distrito de Botuverá and the district was raised to the self-governing Munizip Botuverá in 1962 and spun off from Brusque.
Web links
- Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística : Botuverá - Panorama. (Brazilian Portuguese, basic statistical information).
- Official website of the prefecture. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ IBGE : Botuverá - História. Retrieved June 23, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).