Chapecó
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| Nickname(s): Capital do Oeste (Capital of the West) | ||
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| Country |
 Brazil
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| Region | South | |
| State |
 Santa Catarina
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| Founded | August 25, 1917 | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Luciano José Buligon (PSB) | |
| Area | ||
| • City | 624.308 km2 (241.047 sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 113.24 km2 (43.72 sq mi) | |
| • Metro | 4,938.15 km2 (1,906.63 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 674 m (2,211 ft) | |
| Population (2015)(metro pop IBGE/2010) | ||
| • City | 209,553 | |
| • Density | 329.64/km2 (853.8/sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 188,998 | |
| • Metro | 403,458 | |
| • Metro density | 81.7/km2 (212/sq mi) | |
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| Demonym(s) | chapecoense | |
| Time zone | UTC-3 (UTC-3) | |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-2 (UTC-2) | |
| HDI (2000) | 0.834 | |
| Website | www.chapeco.sc.gov.br | |
Chapecó is a major city in the western area of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, located 630 km west of Florianópolis, the state capital.
As of 2016, it has a population of around 209,553 inhabitants, who are known as chapecoense.
Until the 19th century, the area around Chapecó land was under indigenous (mainly Kaingang) and Spanish control, mostly unoccupied by European people and subject to border issues and armed conflicts. Brazilian control was in fact established as a in 1882. Its official status as a municipality was established by state government decree after the Contestado War on August 25, 1917. Its area was then given to a private colonization company which began selling land to people coming mainly from the neighboring state of Rio Grande do Sul. Most of its inhabitants are descended from Italian, German and Polish immigrants.
Chapecó itself has a population of over 200 thousand inhabitants and its metropolitan area, approximately 400 thousand. It is the hub city of Western Santa Catarina, where there are about two hundred municipalities, summing together more than 2 million inhabitants.
This region of the state is home of some of the largest meat processing and exporting industrial enterprises such as Sadia and Seara Foods; the farmers are organized in agricultural cooperatives. Chapecó is known as a Brazilian agro-industrial capital, specialized in pork, poultry and technology involved. The city is headquarters of Aurora Central Cooperative and has a plant of BRF S.A. since 1973.
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