Águas Mornas | |
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municipality | |
Church of Águas Mornas and town square Evaldo Carlos Lehmkuhl | |
FlagSeal | |
Location of Águas Mornas | |
Águas Mornas | |
Coordinates: 27°41′38″S 48°49′26″W / 27.69389°S 48.82389°W / -27.69389; -48.82389 | |
Country | Brazil |
Region | South |
State | Santa Catarina |
Founded | December 29, 1961 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Elmar Antônio Thiesen (PFL) |
Area | |
• Total | 360.757 km (139.289 sq mi) |
Elevation | 70 m (230 ft) |
Population | |
• Total | 6,559 |
• Density | 12.4/km (32/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC−3 (BRT) |
HDI (2000) | 0.783 |
Website | www.aguasmornas.sc.gov.br |
Águas Mornas is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Santa Catarina.
The municipality contains part of the Rio das Lontras Private Natural Heritage Reserve, a fully protected area of montane rainforest in the Atlantic Forest biome. It also contains part of the 84,130 hectares (207,900 acres) Serra do Tabuleiro State Park, a protected area created in 1975. The lushly-forested park protects the sources of the Vargem do Braço, Cubatão and D'Una rivers, which supply most of the drinking water for greater Florianópolis and the south coast region.
References
- IBGE 2020
- RPPN Reserve Ecologica Rio das Lontras (in Portuguese), Associação dos Proprietários de Reservas Particulares do Patrimônio Natural de Santa Catarina, retrieved 2016-05-18
- Parque Estadual da Serra do Tabuleiro (in Portuguese), FATMA: Fundação do meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-06-11
Grande Florianópolis mesoregion of Santa Catarina , Brazil | |
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Florianópolis | |
Tabuleiro | |
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Vale do Itajai |
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