South (Santa Catarina)
Southern Santa Catarina is a region of the state of Santa Catarina in Southern Brazil.
Cities
From north to south:
- 🌍 Imbituba — known as the whale capital of Brazil, as it was home to major whaling ships until the mid-20th century
- 🌍 Tubarão — renowned for spa tourism and its rural areas where you can spend pleasant hours in contact with nature
- 🌍 Criciúma — its Festival of Ethnicities brings together all the ethnic traditions of the region
- 🌍 Araranguá — the resort of Morro dos Conventos, 10 km from the center, has a beach, dunes, caves and the mouth of the Araranguá River
- 🌍 Sombrio — agricultural town near the lake of the same name
Other destinations
- Ibiraquera Lagoon
Understand
Sul Catarinense is the territory with the highest percentage of Italian descendants (~65%) with peaks of 100% in some localities and who arrived here at the end of the 19th century.
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