Santa Catarina
Santa Catarina is a state in the southern region of Brazil. Santa Catarina offers rural tourism, thermal resorts, ecological tourism, and adventure sports, historic monuments and sights, religious tourism, Beto Carrero World and Unipraias parks in Balneário Camboriú, and beach resorts of Florianópolis, Laguna, Porto Belo and Itajaí.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Florianopolis and Joinville.
Florianopolis
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Florianópolis is a coastal city in southern Brazil, the capital of the state of Santa Catarina. Most of the city's area consists of the island of Santa Catarina, connected to the mainland by two bridges, and only a small part of the island can really be called urban—the rest is full of gorgeous beaches and nature, including a large lagoon.
Joinville
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Joinville is the largest city in Santa Catarina, Brazil. It is principally an industrial city and many of its 500,000 inhabitants are of German descent.
Blumenau
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Blumenau is a city in the Itajaí Valley, in Santa Catarina State, Southern Brazil. The population in 2018 was estimated to be about 352,000.
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Itajaí Valley
The Itajaí Valley is a region in the northeastern part of the state of Santa Catarina in Southern Brazil. Itajai Valley region is fertile agricultural region.
Grande Florianópolis
Grande Florianópolis is a region of the state of Santa Catarina in Southern Brazil.
West
Western Santa Catarina is a region of the state of Santa Catarina in Southern Brazil. The region is called the “granary of the State”, as it has a large agro-industrial production, agriculture and livestock, slaughterhouses and food industry.
Santa Catarina
- Type: federative unit of Brazil with 7,250,000 residents
- Description: state in the South Region of Brazil
- Also known as: “Santa Catarina state” and “SC”
- Neighbors: Misiones, Paraná, and Rio Grande do Sul
- Location: South, Brazil, South America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Santa Catarina” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Santa Catarina”
- Arabic: “سانتا كاتارينا”
- Aragonese: “Santa Catarina”
- Armenian: “Սանտա Կատարինա”
- Asturian: “Santa Catarina”
- Aymara: “Santa Catarina Istadu”
- Aymara: “Santa Catarina”
- Azerbaijani: “Santa-Katarina”
- Basque: “Santa Catarina”
- Belarusian: “Санта-Катарына, штат”
- Belarusian: “Санта-Катарына”
- Belarusian: “штат Санта-Катарына”
- Bengali: “স্যান্টা ক্যাটারিনা”
- Bishnupriya: “সান্টা কাটারিনা”
- Bosnian: “Santa Catarina”
- Breton: “Santa Catarina”
- Bulgarian: “Санта Катарина”
- Catalan: “Estat de Santa Catarina”
- Catalan: “Santa Catarina”
- Catalan: “SC”
- Cebuano: “Santa Catarina”
- Central Kurdish: “ویلایەتی سانتا کاتارینا”
- Chavacano: “Santa Catarina”
- Chinese: “Santa Catarina”
- Chinese: “圣卡塔林纳州”
- Chinese: “圣卡塔琳娜”
- Chinese: “圣卡塔琳娜州”
- Chinese: “聖卡塔琳娜州”
- Chinese: “聖卡塔蓮娜州”
- Chinese: “聖塔卡塔林那”
- Cornish: “Santa Catarina”
- Crimean Tatar: “Santa Katarina”
- Crimean Tatar: “Santa-Katarina”
- Croatian: “Santa Catarina”
- Czech: “Santa Catarina”
- Dagbani: “Santa Catarina”
- Danish: “Santa Catarina”
- Dutch: “Santa Catarina”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سانتا كاتارينا”
- Esperanto: “Sankta Katarino”
- Esperanto: “Santa Catarina”
- Estonian: “Santa Catarina osariik”
- Estonian: “Santa Catarina”
- Finnish: “Santa Catarina”
- French: “État de Santa Catarina”
- French: “Santa Catarina”
- Galician: “Santa Catarina, Brasil”
- Galician: “Santa Catarina”
- Georgian: “სანტა კატარინა”
- Georgian: “სანტა-კატარინა”
- German: “Estado de Santa Catarina”
- German: “Santa Catarina”
- German: “Santa Catharina”
- German: “SC”
- Greek: “Σάντα Καταρίνα”
- Guarani: “Santa Catarina”
- Gujarati: “સાંતા કેટરિના”
- Hebrew: “סאנטה קטרינה”
- Hebrew: “סנטה קטרינה”
- Hindi: “सांता कातारीना”
- Hindi: “सान्ता कैटरीना”
- Hindi: “सैंटा कैटरीना”
- Hungarian: “Santa Catarina”
- Icelandic: “Santa Catarina”
- Ido: “Santa Catarina”
- Indonesian: “Santa Catarina”
- Interlingua: “Santa Catarina”
- Irish: “Santa Catarina”
- Italian: “Santa Catarina”
- Italian: “SC”
- Italian: “Stato di Santa Caterina”
- Japanese: “サンタ・カタリーナ州”
- Japanese: “サンタ・カタリナ州”
- Japanese: “サンタカタリーナ州”
- Japanese: “サンタカタリナ州”
- Kannada: “ಸಾಂಟಾ ಕ್ಯಾಟರಿನಾ”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Санта-Катарина (штат)”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Санта-Катарина”
- Kazakh: “Санта Катарина”
- Korean: “산타 카타리나 주”
- Korean: “산타카타리나주”
- Ladino: “Santa Catarina”
- Latin: “civitas Cathariniana”
- Latin: “Civitas Cathariniana”
- Latin: “Sancta Catarina”
- Latin: “Sancta Catharina”
- Latvian: “Santakatarina”
- Limburgan: “Santa Catarina”
- Lithuanian: “Santa Katarina”
- Lithuanian: “Santa Katarinos valstija”
- Macedonian: “Санта Катарина”
- Malagasy: “Santa Catarina”
- Malay: “Santa Catarina”
- Marathi: “सांता कातारिना”
- Mazanderani: “سانتا کاتارینا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Santa Catarina”
- Northern Frisian: “Santa Catarina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Santa Catarina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delstaten Santa Catarina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Santa Catarina”
- Norwegian: “Santa Catarina”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Santa Catarina”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sanct Cataland”
- Ossetian: “Сантæ-Катаринæ”
- Ossetian: “Санта-Катаринæ”
- Ossetian: “Санта-Катарина”
- Persian: “سانتا کاتارینا”
- Piemontese: “Santa Catarina”
- Polish: “Santa Catarina”
- Portuguese: “Estado de Santa Catarina”
- Portuguese: “Santa Catarina”
- Portuguese: “SC”
- Quechua: “Santa Catarina suyu”
- Quechua: “Santa Catarina”
- Romanian: “Santa Catarina”
- Russian: “Санта-Катарина”
- Scots: “Santa Catarina”
- Serbian: “Santa Catarina”
- Serbian: “Санта Катарина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Catarina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Katarina”
- Sinhala: “සැන්ටා කැතරිනා ප්රාන්තය, බ්රසීලය”
- Sinhala: “සැන්ටා කැතරිනා”
- Slovak: “Santa Catarina”
- Slovenian: “Santa Catarina”
- Spanish: “Catarinense”
- Spanish: “Estado de Santa Catarina”
- Spanish: “Santa Catarina”
- Swahili: “Santa Catarina”
- Swedish: “Santa Catarina”
- Tajik: “Санта Катарина”
- Tamil: “சாண்டா கதறினா”
- Tatar: “Санта-Катарина”
- Telugu: “సాంటా కాటరీనా”
- Tetum: “Santa Catarina”
- Thai: “รัฐซังตากาตารีนา”
- Thai: “รัฐซันตากาตารีนา”
- Turkish: “BR-SC”
- Turkish: “Estado de Santa Catarina”
- Turkish: “Santa Catarina (eyalet)”
- Turkish: “Santa Catarina eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Santa Catarina”
- Turkish: “SC”
- Ukrainian: “Санта-Катарина”
- Ukrainian: “Санта-Катаріна”
- Ukrainian: “Штат Санта-Катаріна”
- Urdu: “سانتا کاتارینا”
- Uzbek: “Santa-Katarina”
- Venetian: “Santa Catarina”
- Vietnamese: “Santa Catarina”
- Volapük: “Santa Catarina”
- Waray (Philippines): “Santa Catarina”
- Welsh: “Santa Catarina”
- Western Panjabi: “سانتا کتارینا”
- Wu Chinese: “圣卡塔琳娜州”
- Yoruba: “Santa Catarina”
- Yue Chinese: “聖卡塔蓮娜州”
- “BR-SC”
- “ma Santa Catarina”
- “ma Santa Katalina”
- “ma Santakatalina”
- “Santa Catarina”
- “SC”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Santa Catarina”. Photo: Inkey, Public domain.