Official Name: | Alfredo Wagner |
Native Name: | Alfredense |
Other Name: | The Municipality of Alfredo Wagner |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Nickname: | Sources of Capital |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Brazil |
Coordinates: | -27.7°N -49.3339°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Brazil |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | South |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | Santa Catarina |
Subdivision Type3: | Mesoregion |
Subdivision Name3: | Great Florianópolis |
Subdivision Type4: | Microregion |
Subdivision Name4: | Tabuleiro |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | December 21, 1961 |
Established Title1: | Mesoregion date |
Established Date1: | IBGE/2008[1] |
Established Title2: | Micoregion date |
Established Date2: | IBGE/2008 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Naudir Antonio Schmitz[2] (PMDB) |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population Total: | 10,086 |
Population As Of: | 2020 [3] |
Timezone: | BRT |
Utc Offset: | -3 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
Postal Code: | 88450-000 |
Area Code: | (48) |
Blank Name Sec1: | Nearby towns |
Blank Info Sec1: | Angelina, Anitápolis, Bom Retiro, Chapadão do Lageado, Imbuia, Ituporanga, Leoberto Leal e Rancho Queimado |
Blank1 Name Sec1: | Distance to the capital |
Blank1 Info Sec1: | 78.1km (48.5miles) |
Website: | www.alfredowagner.sc.gov.br |
Alfredo Wagner is a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.[1] [4] [5] [6]
The municipality contains the Rio das Furnas Private Natural Heritage Reserve, created in 2002.
The first attempts of colonizing Alfredo Wagner were made at nineteen military in the Morro do Trombudo. The expedition was unsuccessful because snow was abundant and the rain in the three years ravaged the region. Augusto Lima, in 1893, settled in Rivers Adaga and Caeté, accompanied by some settlers. The local passed the name "Barracão", the first name of "Alfredo Wagner". The name is a homage to the men of more worked for emancipation political-administrative the municipality, dismembering of Bom Retiro.
In the start of the 1990s, teachers of University Federal of Santa Catarina found the fossil of a dinosaur, who lived 220 million years ago.
The colonization the Alfredo Wagner mainly is the German and Italian, with the presence of Tyrolean of Italian language.