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São Francisco do Sul

São Francisco do Sul is the oldest city in and the third oldest in . Situated on the island of São Francisco, it lies just west of Joinville and 200km north of Florinopolis.
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  • Type: Town with 52,700 residents
  • Description: municipality of Santa Catarina state, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Nossa Senhora da Graça do Rio São Francisco”, “São Francisco”, “Sao Francisco do Sul”, and “Sao Francisco Do Sul”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Port of São Francisco do Sul.

Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is one of the main ports of and Latin America. It's located in the city of São Francisco do Sul, in the Brazilian state of .

São Francisco do Sul

Latitude
-26.2495° or 26° 14′ 58″ south
Longitude
-48.6308° or 48° 37′ 51″ west
Population
52,700
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Open location code
585HQ929+5M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 273202754
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6323270
Wiki­data ID
Q986536
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Waray—“São Francisco do Sul” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Bishnupriya: “সাও ফ্রান্সিসকো ডো সুল”
  • Catalan: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Cebuano: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Central Kurdish: “ساو فرانسیسکۆ دوو سول”
  • Chechen: “Сан-Франсиску-ду-Сул”
  • Chinese: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Chinese: “南圣弗朗西斯科”
  • Dutch: “Sao Francisco do Sul”
  • Dutch: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • French: “Sao Francisco do Sul”
  • French: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • German: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Hebrew: “סאו פרנסיסקו דו סול”
  • Hungarian: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Ido: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Interlingua: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Irish: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Italian: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Malagasy: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Mazanderani: “سائو فرانسیسکو دو سول”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Norwegian: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Polish: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Romanian: “Sao Francisco do Sul”
  • Romanian: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Russian: “Сан-Франсиску-ду-Сул”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Spanish: “San Francisco del Sur”
  • Spanish: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Swedish: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Tatar: “Сан-Франсиску-ду-Сул”
  • Turkish: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Vietnamese: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Volapük: “São Francisco do Sul”
  • Waray (Philippines): “São Francisco do Sul”

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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 Wikivoyage page “São Francisco do Sul”. Photo: Flavio benedito Conceição, CC BY-SA 4.0.