| Caçador | |
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| — Municipality and town — | |
| Country | Brazil |
| Region | South |
| State | Santa Catarina |
| Mesoregion | Oeste Catarinense |
| Time zone | UTC -3 |
Caçador is a town and municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.[1][2][3][4]
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The banks of the Rio do Peixe (Fish's River) were inhabited by ethnic native groups of Kaingangs and Xoklengs until 1881, when families of european origin settled here and, because of the abundance of hunting, dubbed the place "Rio do Caçador" (Hunter's River).
Francisco Correa de Mello, who cames from Campos Novos and settled on the banks of Rio do Peixe, in 1881, is considered the first resident of portuguese origin, which was followed in 1887 by Pedro Ribeiro, and in 1891, Tomaz Gonçalves Padilha, who settled on November 15.
With the construction of the railroad São Paulo - Rio Grande do Sul, from 1908 to 1910, the colonization intensified with immigrants from Italy, German, Polish and Syrian-Lebanese. In 1910 the tracks reached at Rio Caçador and attracted large numbers of immigrants of Italian origin, mainly from Rio Grande do Sul. With the settlement of the core of Rio das Antas, the Brazil Railway Company, established in the municipality many settlers Teutonic- Brazilians from the coast of Santa Catarina.
The town of Caçador is in the heart of the region where, from 1912 to 1916, there was the call of the "Guerra do Contestado"(Contested War).
In 1918 he was installed the first post office, where there was already a post of state revenues. The construction of the Road Caçador - Curitibanos in 1933 spurred the development of the region. In 1923, created with the name of Rio Caçador, became subordinate to the district municipality of Campos Novos. In the administrative division for the year 1933, the Rio Caçador district was included in the municipality of Curitibanos.
Population growth and wood industries led to the creation of the municipality, established on March 25, 1934, and dismantled the cities of Curitibanos, Campos Novos, Cruzeiro and Porto União.
Caçador's economy has developed through the extraction and industrialization of timber and reforestation. Agriculture emerged as a new option for generating foreign exchange, especially for fresh produce. Caçador is considered the largest producer of tomatoes in southern Brazil.
The city has a subtropical humid mesothermal, with an average annual temperature of 16 ° C, hot and humid summers and cold winters and dry. It is known for its negative marks in temperature during the winter.
Caçador holds the record minimum temperature in official data from Brazil, with -14 ° C in June 1952. Another record, unofficial, of -17.8 ° C in 1996 in Morro da Igreja -Urubici, also in Santa Catarina, would the record for this county.
Between the months of May to September, often occurring frosts and occasional snowfalls occur.
The city is the hometown of Junior dos Santos, UFC fighter.
The city is served by Caçador-Carlos Alberto da Costa Neves Airport
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