Flor do Sertão | |
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Municipality | |
| Coordinates:26°46′40″S53°20′49″W / 26.7778°S 53.3469°W /-26.7778; -53.3469 | |
| Country | |
| Region | South |
| State | Santa Catarina |
| Mesoregion | Oeste Catarinense |
| Population (2020[1]) | |
• Total | 1,579 |
| Time zone | UTC -3 |
| Website | www |
Flor do Sertão is aBrazilianmunicipality in thestate ofSanta Catarina. It is located at a latitude of 26º46'39" south and a longitude of 53º20'51" west, at an altitude of 302 meters. It is thethird least populous municipality inSanta Catarina.[2][3][4][5]
The nameFlor do Sertão (Flower of the Sertão), according to the oldest residents, comes from atree with yellow flowers found in the middle of the forest at the beginning of colonization, which they believed to be theYellow Ipê, a tree that became a symbol of the municipality.
In the territory ofFlor do Sertão, lies theFlor do Sertão Small Hydroelectric Power Plant (PCH), built on theAntas River, a tributary of the Uruguay River basin. The project is the result of an inter-cooperation project between eight cooperatives from Santa Catarina that joined together to form the company Mauê S/A: Aurora Coop (Chapecó), Cooperalfa (Chapecó), Ceraçá (Saudades), Cooper A-1 (Palmitos), Cooperitaipu (Pinhalzinho), Copérdia (Concórdia), Coopercampos (Campos Novos) and Auriverde (Cunha Porã).
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