Flor do Sertão
Flor do Sertão | |
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Municipality | |
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Flor do Sertão Location in Brazil | |
| Coordinates: 26°46′40″S 53°20′49″W / 26.7778°S 53.3469°W | |
| Country | Brazil |
| Region | South |
| State | Santa Catarina |
| Mesoregion | Oeste Catarinense |
| Population (2020 [1]) | |
• Total | 1,579 |
| Time zone | UTC -3 |
| Website | www |
Flor do Sertão is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Santa Catarina. It is located at a latitude of 26º46'39" south and a longitude of 53º20'51" west, at an altitude of 302 meters. It is the third least populous municipality in Santa Catarina.[2][3][4][5]
History
The name Flor do Sertão (Flower of the Sertão), according to the oldest residents, comes from a tree with yellow flowers found in the middle of the forest at the beginning of colonization, which they believed to be the Yellow Ipê, a tree that became a symbol of the municipality.
Infrastructure of the municipality
In the territory of Flor do Sertão, lies the Flor do Sertão Small Hydroelectric Power Plant (PCH), built on the Antas River, a tributary of the Uruguay River basin. The project is the result of an inter-cooperation project between eight cooperatives from Santa Catarina that joined together to form the company Mauê S/A: Aurora Coop (Chapecó), Cooperalfa (Chapecó), Ceraçá (Saudades), Cooper A-1 (Palmitos), Cooperitaipu (Pinhalzinho), Copérdia (Concórdia), Coopercampos (Campos Novos) and Auriverde (Cunha Porã).
See also
References
- ^ IBGE 2020
- ^ "Divisão Territorial do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Divisão Territorial do Brasil e Limites Territoriais, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). July 1, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
- ^ "Estimativas da população para 1º de julho de 2009" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Estimativas de População, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). August 14, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
- ^ "Ranking decrescente do IDH-M dos municípios do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano, Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD). 2000. Archived from the original on October 3, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
- ^ "Produto Interno Bruto dos Municípios 2002-2005" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). December 19, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 2, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.