South
The South is the southernmost region of Brazil. Its attractions range from the historic Jesuit ruins of Missões to the excellent beaches of Santa Catarina and the unmissable Iguaçu Falls.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Curitiba and Porto Alegre.
Curitiba
Curitiba is the capital of Paraná, Brazil. If you're heading for Iguaçu Falls from Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo, it's worth stopping by for a day or two.
Porto Alegre
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Porto Alegre is the capital city and the most populous city of the state Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil. With 4.4 million people in its metropolitan area, it is the 4th largest city of the country.
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.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina.
Rio Grande do Sul
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Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in Brazil, bordering Uruguay and Argentina. It is in some sense a unique region that merges clearly identifiable elements of Brazilian culture, the culture of Pampas region which also includes Uruguay and a large portion of Argentina, as well as the culture of German and Italian immigrants.
Santa Catarina
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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.
Paraná
Paraná is a state in southern Brazil. It's an incredibly culturally rich and diverse state, blending characteristics of the Portuguese, indigenous and African cultures present in most of Brazil, with those of varied immigrant groups such as German, Polish, Syrian-Lebanese and Japanese.
South
- Type: Region with 29,000,000 residents
- Description: region of Brazil
- Also known as: “Brazílie jižní”, “Grande Regiao Sul”, “Grande Região Sul”, “South Region”, “South Region of Brazil”, “South Region, Brazil”, and “Southern Brazil”
- Neighbors: Central West and Southeast
- Category: region of Brazil
- Location: Brazil, South America
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“South” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Rajoni Jugor i Brazilit”
- Arabic: “المنطقة الجنوبية”
- Armenian: “Հարավային տարածաշրջան (Բրազիլիա)”
- Armenian: “Հարավային տարածաշրջան”
- Azerbaijani: “Cənub regionu (Braziliya)”
- Azerbaijani: “Cənub regionu”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёвы рэгіён (Бразылія)”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёвы рэгіён Бразыліі”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёвы рэгіён”
- Bishnupriya: “খা, ব্রাজিল”
- Bishnupriya: “খা”
- Bishnupriya: “ব্রাজিলর খা লয়া”
- Bosnian: “Južna regija”
- Breton: “Rannvro Sul”
- Breton: “Sul (Brazil”
- Breton: “Sul”
- Bulgarian: “Южен регион”
- Catalan: “Regió Sud de Brasil”
- Catalan: “Regió Sud del Brasil”
- Chinese: “巴西南部”
- Chinese: “巴西南部地区”
- Czech: “Brazílie jižní”
- Czech: “Jižní region”
- Danish: “Brasil”
- Danish: “Sul”
- Dutch: “Regio Zuid”
- Dutch: “Zuid-Brazilië”
- Esperanto: “Suda regiono de Brazilo”
- Estonian: “Lõunapiirkond”
- Finnish: “Eteläinen alue”
- French: “Brésil méridional”
- French: “Region Sud”
- French: “région Sud”
- French: “Région Sud”
- Galician: “Rexión Sur do Brasil”
- Georgian: “სამხრეთი რეგიონი”
- German: “Brazílie jižní”
- German: “Região Sul”
- German: “Süden”
- Greek: “Νότια Βραζιλία”
- Hebrew: “דרום ברזיל”
- Hebrew: “האזור הדרומי של ברזיל”
- Hebrew: “האזור הדרומי”
- Hindi: “दक्षिणी क्षेत्र (ब्राज़ील)”
- Hindi: “दक्षिणी क्षेत्र”
- Hungarian: “Déli régió”
- Ido: “Suda regiono”
- Indonesian: “Brasil Selatan”
- Indonesian: “Daerah Selatan Brasil”
- Indonesian: “Daerah Selatan, Brasil”
- Indonesian: “Daerah Selatan”
- Interlingua: “Region Sud”
- Italian: “Brasile meridionale”
- Italian: “Regione Sud del Brasile”
- Italian: “Regione Sul del Brasile”
- Japanese: “スル”
- Japanese: “ブラジル南部地方”
- Japanese: “南伯”
- Japanese: “南部”
- Japanese: “南部地域”
- Kirghiz: “Түштүк аймагы (Бразилия)”
- Kirghiz: “Түштүк аймагы”
- Korean: “남부 지방”
- Korean: “술 지방”
- Latvian: “Dienvidu reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Brazilijos Pietų regionas”
- Macedonian: “Јужен регион”
- Macedonian: “Јужен Регион”
- Northern Frisian: “Região Sul do Brasil”
- Northern Frisian: “Süüd Regiuun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brasil”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sul”
- Norwegian: “Sul”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Region Sud”
- Ossetian: “Хуссар регион”
- Persian: “منطقه جنوب برزیل”
- Polish: “Brazylia Południowa”
- Polish: “Region Południowy”
- Portuguese: “Região Sul do Brasil”
- Portuguese: “Regiao sul”
- Portuguese: “Região Sul”
- Portuguese: “Sul (Brasil)”
- Portuguese: “Sul brasileiro”
- Portuguese: “Sul do brasil”
- Portuguese: “Sul do Brasil”
- Portuguese: “Sul”
- Russian: “Южная Бразилия”
- Russian: “Южный регион”
- Sinhala: “දකුණු කලාපය, බ්රසීලය”
- Slovenian: “Jug”
- Slovenian: “Južna regija”
- Spanish: “Region sur de Brasil”
- Spanish: “Región Sur de Brasil”
- Spanish: “Region Sur del Brasil”
- Spanish: “Región Sur del Brasil”
- Spanish: “Sur de Brasil”
- Spanish: “Sur del Brasil”
- Turkish: “Güney bölgesi, Brezilya”
- Ukrainian: “Південний регіон Бразилії”
- Ukrainian: “Південний регіон”
- Urdu: “جنوبی علاقہ، برازیل”
- Vietnamese: “Miền Nam Brasil”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Nam, Brasil”
- “Sul do Brasil”
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