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image by Ivan Sache,
3 November 2021
Source:
http://www.graopara.sc.gov.br/conteudo/?item=13472&fa=3888&cd=2675&menu=Bandeira
The municipality of Gr�o-Par� (6,228 inhabitants; 33,816 ha) is located 200
km south-west of Florian�polis. The municipality is composed of the districts of
Gr�o-Par� (seat), Aiur� (est. by State Law No. 853 promulgated on 14 November
1962) and Invernada (est. by State Law No. 852 promulgated on 14 November 1962).
Gr�o-Par� was established on 2 December 1882 as the central seat of Col�nia
Imperial. The colony was named for Pedro de Alc�ntara of Orl�ans-Braganza
(1875-1940), Prince of Gr�o-Par�, the son of Gaston, Count of Eu and Isabel,
Princess Imperial of Brazil.
Incorporated to the district of Orleans, then
part of Tubar�o, in 1888, the colony was managed by the American engineer
Charles Mitchell Smith Leslie. Gr�o-Par� was elevated to a district of Orleans
by Municipal Law No. 3, promulgated on 20 May 1914, and a municipality by State
Law No. 348 promulgated on 21 June 1958 and inaugurated on 20 July 1958.
https://www.graopara.sc.gov.br/
Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 3 November 2021
An off-centred red upright cross, bordered white, on a green field, with the municipal arms in a white disk on the cross.
Official website at
http://www.graopara.sc.gov.br.
Dirk Sch�nberger, 11 June 2012
Ivan Sache, 3 November 2021