Santa Catarina (state)
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Santa Catarina is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil. It is located in the centre of the country's Southern region. It is bordered to the north by the state of Paraná, to the south by the state of Rio Grande do Sul, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the west by the Argentine province of Misiones.
Arrival of the French, led by Gonneville, to the land that would later become São Francisco do Sul
Colonial settlement on the Island of Santa Catarina
Anita Garibaldi Museum, in Laguna, where the independence of the Juliana Republic was proclaimed
Contestado War: Army troops guarding a sawmill during a rebel attack in Três Barras.
South Region, Brazil
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The South Region of Brazil is one of the five regions of Brazil. It includes the states of Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, and Santa Catarina, and covers 576,409.6 square kilometres (222,553.0 sq mi), being the smallest region of the country, occupying only about 6.76% of the territory of Brazil. Its whole area is smaller than that of the state of Minas Gerais, in Southeast Brazil, for example or the whole metropolitan France.
São Miguel das Missões, where Jesuits lived with local Indians.
Pomerode, A Pomeranian-German colony in Santa Catarina
Vineyards in Rio Grande do Sul.
Wheat in Paraná.