Praia Grande
Praia Grande is the southernmost municipality in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. Despite its name, the city is landlocked. The nearby canyons, which include Serra Geral National Park and Aparados da Serra National Park, make it a destination for hot air ballooning activities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 8,270 residents
- Description: municipality of Santa Catarina state, Brazil
- Also known as: “Praia Grande, Santa Catarina”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Torres Lighthouse and Ilha dos Lobos.
Ilha dos Lobos
Islet
Photo: Andrea Hilgert, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ilha dos Lobos is a small island and wildlife refuge on the Atlantic coast of Torres, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Torres and Passo de Torres.
Torres
Photo: Núbia de Rodrigues Araújo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Torres is a Brazilian municipality located at the northernmost point of the Atlantic coast in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city's landscape is distinguished as the only beach in Rio Grande do Sul featuring prominent rocky cliffs along the shoreline, and it is home to the state's sole maritime island, Ilha dos Lobos.
Passo de Torres
Town
Photo: Eugenio Hansen, OFS, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Passo de Torres is a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.
Praia Grande
- Categories: municipality of Brazil and locality
- Location: Praia Grande, Santa Catarina, South, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-29.33662° or 29° 20′ 12″ southLongitude
-49.72277° or 49° 43′ 22″ westPopulation
8,270Elevation
45 metres (148 feet)Open location code
582GM77G+9VOpenStreetMap ID
node 5467487722OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
3452463Wikidata ID
Q1822575
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Waray—“Praia Grande” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Praia Grande”
- Catalan: “Praia Grande”
- Cebuano: “Praia Grande”
- Chechen: “Прая-Гранди”
- Chinese: “Praia Grande”
- Chinese: “大普拉亞”
- Dutch: “Praia Grande”
- French: “Praia Grande”
- Georgian: “პრაია-გრანდი”
- German: “Município de Praia Grande”
- German: “Praia Grande”
- Hungarian: “Praia Grande, Santa Catarina”
- Interlingua: “Praia Grande”
- Irish: “Praia Grande”
- Italian: “Praia Grande”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Praia Grande”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Praia Grande”
- Norwegian: “Praia Grande”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Praia Grande”
- Polish: “Praia Grande”
- Portuguese: “Praia Grande”
- Russian: “Прая-Гранди”
- Spanish: “Praia Grande”
- Swedish: “Praia Grande, Santa Catarina”
- Swedish: “Praia Grande”
- Tatar: “Прая-Гранди”
- Turkish: “Praia Grande”
- Uzbek: “Praia Grande”
- Volapük: “Praia Grande”
- Waray (Philippines): “Praia Grande, Santa Catarina”
- Waray (Philippines): “Praia Grande”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Praça Claudino Nunes Pereira and Monumento Salva Vidas.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Praia Grande”. Photo: Uilianpd, Public domain.