Chapecó
Município de Chapecó "Capital do Oeste"
Chapecó
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View of the Centro and the Avenida Getúlio Vargas
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Coordinates | 27 ° S , 53 ° W | ||
Location of the municipality in the state of Santa Catarina | |||
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founding | 25th August 1917 (age 103) | ||
Basic data | |||
Country | Brazil | ||
State | Santa Catarina | ||
ISO 3166-2 | BR-SC | ||
Metropolitan area | Chapecó metropolitan area | ||
structure | 5 districts (since 1993) | ||
height | 674 m | ||
climate | subtropical, Cfa | ||
surface | 10,347,535 km² | ||
Residents | 183,530 (2010) | ||
density | -4 Ew. / km² | ||
estimate | 220,367 (July 1, 2019) | ||
Parish code | IBGE : 4204202 | ||
Post Code | 89800-000 to 89816-999 | ||
Telephone code | (+55) 49 | ||
Time zone | UTC −3 | ||
politics | |||
City Prefect | Luciano Buligon (2017-2020) | ||
Political party | DEM (until 2018: PSB ) | ||
Culture | |||
Patron saint | Santo Antônio de Pádua | ||
City festival | August 25 (city foundation) | ||
economy | |||
GDP | 8,317,903 thousand R $ 39,694 R $ per capita (2016) |
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HDI | 0.790 (high) (2010) | ||
Bairros by Chapecó
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Chapecó , officially Portuguese Município de Chapecó , is a city in the west of the state of Santa Catarina , southern Brazil , a good 400 km west of the capital Florianópolis . It is the center of the Chapecó Metropolitan Region ( Região Metropolitana de Chapecó ). The population was estimated as of July 1, 2019 at 220,367 inhabitants, who are called Chapecoensians ( chapecoenses ) and live on a community area of around 625 km² (2018).
history
The city was founded in 1917 with other cities in the west of the state, with mainly immigrants of Italian and German origin from Rio Grande do Sul settling in the new colonization area. Originally, the municipality was responsible for the entire west of the state and covered around 14,000 km². An earlier spelling was Xapecó . In 1953 a territorial reform took place and Chapecó lost large areas to 10 new cities that were previously just districts of Chapecó.
Today it has a university, the Unochapecó - Universidade Comunitária Regional de Chapecó , and is the seat of the Chapecó diocese of the Roman Catholic Church ( Catedral Santo Antônio ) .
climate
The city has a moderately warm, subtropical climate, Cfa according to the Köppen and Geiger climate classification . The average temperature is 18.9 ° C. The average rainfall is 1997 mm per year.
Population development
Sports
The Chapecoense football club plays in the city . On November 23 , 2016 , the club reached the final of the Copa Sudamericana 2016 . On the way to Colombia for the final first leg against Atlético Nacional , the plane with the team on board crashed near Rionegro Airport near Medellín .
sons and daughters of the town
- Hyoran (* 1993), football player
Picture gallery
Web links
- City Prefecture Citizens Portal (Brazilian Portuguese)
- City Council website , Câmara Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Chapecó - Panorama. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed September 27, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Luciano Buligon 40 (Prefeito). In: todapolitica.com. Eleições 2016, accessed September 27, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Chapecó - História. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed September 27, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Unochapecó - Universidade Comunitária Regional de Chapecó
- ↑ Chapecó climate: average temperature, weather by month, Chapecó weather averages. In: climate-data.org. de.climate-data.org, accessed on September 27, 2019 .
- ^ Copa Sul-Americana: Final . globoesporte.globo.com, accessed November 29, 2016 (Portuguese).
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↑ Avião com equipe da Chapecoense sofre acidente na Colômbia . oglobo.globo.com , November 29, 2016, accessed November 29, 2016 (Portuguese).
Plane crash in Colombia: first survivors recovered from the accident machine . sueddeutsche.de , November 29, 2016, accessed on November 29, 2016.