Chapecó

Município de Chapecó "Capital do Oeste" Chapecó
	View of the Centro and the Avenida Getúlio Vargas
	Chapecó
	Chapecó
Coordinates	27 ° S , 53 ° W Coordinates: 27 ° S , 53 ° W
	Location of the municipality in the state of Santa Catarina
Symbols
coat of arms	flag
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)
HDI	0.790 (high) (2010)
	Bairros by Chapecó

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 .