Florianópolis

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Município de Florianópolis
"Floripa" , "Ilha da Magia"
Florianópolis
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Florianópolis (Brazil)
Florianópolis
Florianópolis
Coordinates 27 ° 36 ′  S , 48 ° 33 ′  W Coordinates: 27 ° 36 ′  S , 48 ° 33 ′  W
Location of the Florianópolis municipality in the state of Santa Catarina
Location of the Florianópolis municipality in the state of Santa Catarina
Symbols
coat of arms
coat of arms
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founding March 23, 1673, date of first settlement
March 23, 1726, emancipation as VilaTemplate: Infobox location in Brazil / maintenance
Basic data
Country Brazil
State Santa Catarina
ISO 3166-2 BR-SC
Região intermediária Florianópolis (since 2017)
Região imediata Florianópolis (since 2017)
Metropolitan area Florianópolis
height 3 m
Waters Atlantic Ocean
surface 675.4 km²
Residents 421,240 (2010)
density 623.7  Ew. / km²
estimate 500,973 (July 1, 2019)
Parish code IBGE : 4205407
Post Code 88000-000
Time zone UTC −3
Website www.pmf.sc.gov.br (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect Gean Loureiro (2017-2020)
Political party MDB
Culture
Patron saint Holy Virgin: Nossa Senhora do Desterro
economy
GDP 18,657,157  thousand R $
39,048 R $ per person 
(2016)
HDI 0.847 (2010)

Florianópolis , officially Portuguese Município de Florianópolis , nickname Floripa , is the capital of the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina . The main part (97.3%) with the city center is on the Ilha de Santa Catarina, which is completely part of the city (Município) .

Florianópolis had around 421,000 inhabitants at the 2010 census, the population was estimated to grow to 500,973 inhabitants on July 1, 2019. It is the most important city in the metropolitan region of Florianópolis (Portuguese Região Metropolitana de Florianópolis ) with around 860,000 inhabitants. The city was founded as Vila in 1726.

In the past centuries it was mainly shaped by Azorean immigrants ; today the city is growing mainly due to ongoing rural exodus and inner-Brazilian migration processes .

Naming

The city was called "Meiembipe" by the original inhabitants, the Carijó Indians. With the arrival of the first Portuguese settlers under Francisco Dias Velho, the place was renamed "Nossa Senhora do Desterro" or simply "Desterro". In 1893 the city was named after Floriano Vieira Peixoto , based on the Greek polis (city) , who was president of the still young Republic of Brazil from 1891 to 1894.

City structure

The main part of the city (97.3%) to the city center is located on the Ilha de Santa Catarina , one of the Atlantic Coast offshore island . The rest of the city is on the mainland. The parts lying on the mainland were reclassified from the city of São José in 1944 .

Districts

The locality is currently administratively divided into twelve districts (Portuguese distritos).

Eleven of the twelve districts are exclusively on the island. Only the Centro district, the main part of which is itself on the island, also extends to the mainland.

Archdiocese of Florianópolis

Economy and Infrastructure

energy

Celesc is an energy supply company for the southern part of Santa Catarina. The company is listed in the IBOVESPA financial index .

traffic

Road traffic

In the Groß-Florianópolis area, the federal road ( rodovia federal ) BR-101 , a 4500-kilometer main road in Brazil, runs north-south . About two kilometers west of the city limits it crosses the neighboring cities of Palhoça and São José . Coming from the west of Santa Catarina's hinterland, the BR-282 crosses the BR-101 and connects the city to the national road network. The urban area itself is accessed by state roads (rodovia estadual) of the state of Santa Catarina . These are streets SC-401 through SC-406. They are all on the island. Another connection between the hinterland of Santa Catarina and the greater metropolitan area is the SC-407 state road, which ends in São José.

The island is connected to the continent by three bridges. On the one hand, there is the Hercílio Luz Bridge, which is a listed building (Portuguese: Ponte Hercílio Luz ). The longest suspension bridge in Brazil was built between 1922 and 1926 and is currently being renovated. The completion of the work and the resumption of traffic had been announced by the government for April 2018 [out of date] , the renovation costs to date have been well over R $ 500 million over a period of 33 years (as of 2015). In March 2018, December 2018 was named as the new reopening date, although it has not yet been clarified whether the bridge will also be approved for freight traffic.

A few hundred meters further south are the other two bridges (both BR-282). These are the Colombo-Salles-Bridge and the Pedro-Ivo-Campos-Bridge , which are parallel to each other . All motorized traffic is handled via the two bridges in four-lane one-way traffic.

air traffic

The place has an international airport, the Aeroporto Hercílio Luz ( IATA abbreviation FLN). From there there are connections to the south and south-east Brazilian metropolises (especially to São Paulo and Porto Alegre ), to the airports of southern Brazil and to neighboring countries Argentina ( Buenos Aires ) and Uruguay ( Montevideo ).

tourism

Beach with fishing boats in Pântano do Sul, in the south of the island

The predominant rural structure of the island in the past is today more and more shaped by mass tourism in the main season . There are more than forty beaches on the island of Santa Catarina. These include quiet bays such as Praia dos Ingleses and - on the side facing the open sea - beaches with wild surf such as the surfing beach Praia da Joaquina . Florianópolis is a vacation spot for local and foreign tourists (mainly from Argentina and Uruguay), mainly during the holiday season in the southern hemisphere - the summer months from December to February.

Sports

Soccer

There are two major football clubs in the village, which have so far won 32 of the state's 89 championship titles .

  • Avaí FC with the club colors blue and white. The club currently plays in the Série A , the first Brazilian league. Avaí has ​​won thirteen state championships to date. The stadium is located in the south-east of the island near Hercílio Luz Airport .
  • Figueirense FC (nickname 'Figueira') with the club colors black and white. From 2002 to 2008 and between 2011 and 2012, the club played in the Brazilian first division (Série A). Figueira has won fifteen state titles to date. The stadium is located on the continent in the Estreito district .

Triathlon

The Ironman Brasil has been a long-distance triathlon competition that has been held here every May since 2000 (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) and with the Ironman 70.3 Florianópolis , a race on the middle distance was also introduced in 2018 .

education

The Federal University Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) and the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC) are located in the village.

media

The daily Diário Catarinense appears in the city .

panorama

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Overview of Florianópolis, SC, looking over the city center to the mainland

Town twinning

The place has twinned cities with

sons and daughters of the town

  • Victor Meirelles

  • Cruz e Sousa

  • Luiz Henrique Rosa

Athletes born in Florianópolis :

  • Gustavo Kuerten

  • Douglas da Silva

  • Douglas Franco Teixeira

Climate table

Florianópolis
Climate diagram
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Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm
Source: wetterkontor.de
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Florianópolis
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 28.2 28.1 27.5 25.1 23.0 21.3 20.1 20.6 21.1 22.5 24.3 26.5 O 24
Min. Temperature (° C) 21.7 21.8 21.3 18.7 16.6 15.1 13.7 14.3 15.1 17.0 18.4 20.2 O 17.8
Precipitation ( mm ) 172 164 140 133 107 79 74 88 105 121 112 107 Σ 1,402
Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 6.2 4.7 6.0 5.6 5.8 5.3 5.8 5.8 4.7 4.8 5.7 6.6 O 5.6
Rainy days ( d ) 14th 12 11 12 10 9 9 10 12 13 11 13 Σ 136
Humidity ( % ) 81 82 82 82 83 83 84 83 83 81 80 80 O 82
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16.6
21.3
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20.6
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Source: wetterkontor.de

Web links

Commons : Florianópolis  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Florianópolis  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c IBGE : Florianópolis - Panorama . Retrieved August 29, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  2. ^ Gean Loureiro 15 (Prefeito). In: com.br. Eleições 2016, accessed January 10, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Governo espera abrir ponte Hercílio Luz ao tráfego em abril de 2018. (No longer available online.) In: Notícias do Dia . December 14, 2015, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; Retrieved December 21, 2015 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Michael Gonçalves: Governo avalia cronograma de restauração da ponte Hercílio Luz, em Florianópolis. In: Notícias do Dia . March 14, 2018. Retrieved April 24, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  5. ↑ Swakopmund Lightbeams, newsletter of the city administration Swakopmund: SISTER CITIES & TOWNS , p. 6, July 2008 ( Memento from December 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 940 kB)
  6. ↑ List of the Brazilian-Portuguese town twinning at the Association of Portuguese District Administrations, accessed on January 5, 2019