Caçador

Also known as Cacador

Caçador () is a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Caçador
Settlement.other_name: Municipality of Caçador Município de Caçador
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_skyline: Catedral de Caçador.jpg
Settlement.imagesize: 300px
Settlement.image_caption: São Francisco de Assis Cathedral
Settlement.image_flag: Bandeira_Cacador.svg
Settlement.image_seal: Brasao_Cacador.svg
Settlement.image_map: SantaCatarina Municip Cacador.svg
Settlement.mapsize: 250px
Settlement.map_caption: Location within the state of Santa Catarina
Settlement.pushpin_map

Article

4 sections

Contents

History
Climate
See also
References

Caçador () is a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.

==History== thumb|left|Contestado Museum. The building is a reconstruction of the "Rio Caçador" rail station. thumb|left|Bridge Antonio Bortolon. The banks of the Rio do Peixe (Fish 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 River).