Caçador
| Município de Caçador Caçador |
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| Coordinates | 26 ° 47 ′ S , 51 ° 1 ′ W | ||
 Location of the municipality in the state of Santa Catarina
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| founding | March 25, 1934 | ||
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| Country | Brazil | ||
| State | Santa Catarina | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | BR-SC | ||
| Região intermediária | Caçador (since 2017) | ||
| Região imediata | Caçador (since 2017) | ||
| Metropolitan area | Região Metropolitana do Contestado | ||
| height | 920 m | ||
| climate | subtropical, cfb | ||
| surface | 987 km² | ||
| Residents | 70,762 (2010) | ||
| density | 71.7 Ew. / km² | ||
| estimate | 77,863 (July 1, 2018) | ||
| Parish code | IBGE : 4203006 | ||
| Post Code | 89500-000 | ||
| Time zone | UTC −3 | ||
| Website | cacador.sc (Brazilian Portuguese) | ||
| politics | |||
| City Prefect | Saulo Sperotto (2017-2020) | ||
| Political party | PSDB | ||
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| Patron saint | Francis of Assisi | ||
| economy | |||
| GDP | 2,721,986 thousand R $ 35,549 R $ per person (2016) |
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| HDI | 0.735 (2010) | ||
Caçador , officially Portuguese Município de Caçador , is a medium- sized town in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina with a large municipality. Caçador is located at the mouth of the river of the same name, Rio Caçador ("Hunter River ") in the Rio do Peixe . It is 385 km from the capital, Florianópolis .
The community had 70,762 inhabitants at the 2010 census, on July 1, 2018 the population was estimated at 77,863 inhabitants, who are called Caçadorenses (Portuguese caçadorenses ). It is part of the Região Metropolitana do Contestado metropolitan area with 44 other municipalities .
history
Prehistory and time of discovery
The Caçador region was the settlement area of an early prehistoric culture . Witness to this are the stone tools and blades that are more than 5000 years old that were discovered in the region. This culture possibly belongs to the ancestors of the ancient Brazilian Umbu , Humaitá , and Taquara cultures.
In the 16th century, when the first Portuguese arrived in the area of Santa Catarina, the region around Caçador was inhabited by Indians from the Kaingang , Xokleng ( Botokuden ) and Guaraní tribes.
The first settlers
Francisco Corrêa de Melo is named as the first settler and inhabitant in the city's history. He came from Campos Novos in 1881 and settled with his family on the banks of the Rio Caçador. He was followed in 1887 by Pedro Ribeiro and in 1891 by Tomaz Gonçalves Padilha.
Border dispute and construction of the railway
In the 19th century, Argentina and Brazil bordered each other along the Caçador and do Peixe rivers . This border line was controversial. In order to secure the area for itself, Brazil built a railway line at the beginning of the 20th century that was to connect São Paulo with Rio Grande do Sul and Uruguay .
In 1908 construction began on the São Paulo - Rio Grande do Sul railway line and two years later there were thousands of workers in the region.
Rio Caçador was the original name of the stop at kilometer 133 of the route from Porto União da Vitória to Marcelino Ramos leading along the Rio do Peixe . Due to the railway connection, more and more settlers settled in Rio Caçador. Most of them came from other regions of Brazil ( internal migration ) and had a predominantly European background (with a predominance of Italians, Germans and Poles); but among them were also numerous Syrians and Lebanese.
Contestado war and advancements
The railroad also brought greed and exploitation to the region, which led to the Guerra do Contestado (Contestado War, 1912–1916).
The first post office was built in 1918. In 1923 Rio Caçador was incorporated into the district of Campos Novos , and since 1933 it has belonged to Curitibanos . In the same year the road from Rio Caçador to Curitibanos was built, which ensured further economic upswing and population growth.
The city of Caçador was founded on March 25, 1934.
Economy and Infrastructure
railway station
The first train station, Rio Caçador , was inaugurated on May 1, 1910. At that time there were no rails on the line and the station building was made entirely of wood. When the city was founded on March 25, 1934, the station was renamed Caçador . In 1941 the station building burned down completely and was replaced a year later by the modern Caçador Nova .
Caçador Nova , a reinforced concrete building, is still preserved today. The station served both passenger traffic and cargo handling. São Paulo-Montevideo , a well-known Brazilian-Uruguayan long-distance train, stopped here between 1943 and 1954.
On October 23, 1986, a replica of the first train station, built with the support of the Rede Ferroviária Federal , was inaugurated, which today houses the Museu Histórico e Antropológico do Contestado . The museum is located near the original train station.
On December 13, 1996, a private company won the concession for the previously state-owned railway lines in the Brazilian states of Paraná , Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul in a tender and thus acquired the right to operate them. Shortly thereafter, the railway line that ran past Caçador was stopped. Caçador Nova remained closed in the following years.
Caçador Nova was restored by 2008 . A cultural center is now housed in the building of the former train station.
Airport
The airport Aeroporto Carlos Alberto da Costa Neves (IATA: CFC ; ICAO: SBCD ) connects Caçador by daily flights of the airline NHT directly Curitiba , Erechim , Florianópolis and Joaçaba . The runway is 1875 m long.
The flight route between Caçador and the nearest capitals is: Curitiba ?; Florianópolis 260 km; Porto Alegre 363 km; São Paulo 568 km; Brasília 1263 km.
Culture, religion and sights
The Museu Histórico e Antropológico da Região do Contestado is a museum dedicated to the Guerra do Contestado .
In addition to extensive documentation on the course of the war and the messianic movement that took place in the region during this period, the museum's collection offers archaeological-anthropological relics from the history of the indigenous people and settlers in this region.
The museum building is a replica of the first train station and is mainly made of wood. The collection also includes an old restored Baldwin locomotive from 1907, including passenger cars .
The Ponte Antônio Bortolon , a roofed wooden yoke bridge, is particularly popular in Caçador . It was the first bridge built in Caçador and was completed in 1924. The builders, themselves residents of Caçador, were Italian emigrants from the province of Vicenza , Veneto . B. the Ponte degli Alpini in Bassano del Grappa , knew. The original bridge was destroyed by floods in 1983, but was rebuilt in the same place in the 1990s.
Other attractions include the city's two natural parks: the Floresta Nacional de Caçador and the Reserva Florestal da Epagri , with an area of 710 and 800 hectares respectively. With their specimens of the Brazilian araucaria they contribute to the preservation of this threatened tree species.
Caçador is the seat of the diocese of Caçador ( Dioecesis Captatoropolitana ), a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Caçador - Panorama. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed July 25, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ^ Saulo Sperotto 45 (Prefeito). In: todapolitica.com. Eleições 2016, accessed July 25, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ See A Ferrovia do Contestado ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 142 kB)
- ↑ See Estações Ferroviárias do Brasil: Caçador
- ↑ See Estações Ferroviárias do Brasil: Caçador Nova
- ↑ See Ferrovia Sul Atlântico
- ↑ See Veneti nel Mondo - Bassano e Caçador: se non è gemellaggio poco ci manca ( Memento of December 23, 2004 in the Internet Archive )