Settlement Type: | municipality |
Official Name: | Águas Mornas |
Mapsize: | 250px |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name: | Brazil |
Subdivision Name1: | South |
Subdivision Name2: | Santa Catarina |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Elmar Antônio Thiesen |
Leader Party: | PFL |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | December 29, 1961 |
Area Total Km2: | 360.757 |
Pushpin Map: | Brazil |
Population As Of: | 2020 [1] |
Population Total: | 6,559 |
Population Density Km2: | 12.4 |
Timezone: | BRT |
Utc Offset: | -3 |
Coordinates: | -27.6939°N -48.8239°W |
Elevation M: | 70 |
Blank Name: | HDI (2000) |
Blank Info: | 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 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.