Santa Catarina
Proper noun
Meaning
Santa Catarina
A state of the South Region, Brazil. Capital: Florianópolis
Examples
Currently SignWriting is taught on an academic level at the University Federal de Santa Catarina as part of its Brazilian Sign Language curriculum.
Further east and west are other beaches including the Colorada, Punta Espinillo, Punta Yeguas, Zabala and Santa Catarina.
By 1540, there were 800 cane sugar mills in Santa Catarina Island and another 2,000 on the north coast of Brazil, Demarara, and Surinam.
Swine effluents constitute a serious environmental problem in Santa Catarina in the South.
On the home voyage, after Solís' death, one of the vessels was wrecked off Santa Catarina Island near the Brazilian coast.
Setting out in April 1524, with a fleet of fourteen ships, Vasco da Gama took as his flagship the famous large carrack Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai on her last journey to India, along with two of his sons, Estêvão and Paulo.