Metropolitan area of Florianópolis
| Região Metropolitana de Florianópolis Metropolitan Area Florianópolis |
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| Coordinates | 27 ° 36 ′ S , 48 ° 33 ′ W |
 The metropolitan area of Florianópolis is highlighted in red.
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| founding | January 6, 1998 |
| Basic data | |
| Country | Brazil |
| State | Santa Catarina |
| ISO 3166-2 | BR-SC |
| Região intermediária | Florianópolis (since 2017) |
| Região imediata | Florianópolis (since 2017) |
| Mesoregion |
Florianópolis (1989 to 2017) |
| surface | 2,383.2 km² |
| Residents | 1,014,105 (2017 estimate) |
| density | 425.5 Ew. / km² |
| Time zone | UTC −3 |
| HDI | 0.815 (2010) |
The Metropolitan Region Florianópolis , Portuguese Região Metropolitana de Florianópolis , is a metropolitan region in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina . It was established by law on January 6, 1998 and has its seat in the city of Florianópolis .
Demographics and Expansion
Until 2017, the metropolitan region lay within the mesoregion Florianópolis and comprised nine municipalities of the two microregions Florianópolis and Tabuleiro in the nucleus .
With an area of 2,383.1 km² it had a population of 1,014,105 inhabitants (July 2017 estimate), which corresponds to a population density of 425.5 per km².
| Municípios of the Metropolitan Region Florianópolis sorted by population | |||||||
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| Município | Population census 2010 |
2017 estimate | Area km² (2016) |
Microregion (1989 to 2017) |
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| Florianópolis | 421.240 | 485.838 | 675,409 | Florianópolis | |||
| São José | 209,804 | 239.718 | 150.453 | Florianópolis | |||
| Palhoça | 137,334 | 164.926 | 395.133 | Florianópolis | |||
| Biguaçu | 58.206 | 66,558 | 367.891 | Florianópolis | |||
| Santo Amaro da Imperatriz | 19,823 | 22.609 | 344,049 | Florianópolis | |||
| Governador Celso Ramos | 12,999 | 14,229 | 117.185 | Florianópolis | |||
| Antonio Carlos | 7,458 | 8,327 | 233,574 | Florianópolis | |||
| Águas Mornas | 5,548 | 6,298 | 327,358 | Tabuleiro | |||
| Sao Pedro de Alcântara | 4,704 | 5,602 | 140.016 | Florianópolis | |||
| All in all | 877.166 | 1.014.105 | 2,383.177 | ||||
The municipalities of Florianópolis, Biguaçu, São José and Palhoça form a co-populated agglomeration of members of the region.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano do Brasil: RM Florianópolis . Retrieved April 1, 2018 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Lei Complementar Estadual de Santa Catarina nº 495, de 26 de janeiro de 2010. Institui as Regiões Metropolitanas de Florianópolis, do Vale do Itajaí, do Norte / Nordeste Catarinense, de Lages, da Foz do Rio Itajaí, Carbonífera e de Tubarão. Retrieved April 1, 2018 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Estimativas da população residente no Brasil e unidades da federação com data de referência em 1 ° de julho de 2017. (PDF; 2.7 MB) In: ibge.gov.br. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), 2017, accessed April 1, 2018 (Portuguese).