São Bonifácio is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the

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of Santa Catarina in the South region of

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. The municipality contains part of the

Serra do Tabuleiro State Park Serra do Tabuleiro State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual da Serra do Tabuleiro) is a state park in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. It protects a mountainous area near the city of Florianópolis, covered in Atlantic Forest, which is an important so ...

, a protected area created in 1975. The lushly-forested park protects the sources of the Vargem do Braço,

Cubatão Cubatão is a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, 12 kilometers away from Santos seaport, the largest in Latin America. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Baixada Santista. The population is 131,626 (2020 est.) in an area of 142.88 ...

and D'Una rivers, which supply most of the drinking water for greater Florianópolis and the south coast region.

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Municipalities in Santa Catarina (state) {{SantaCatarina-geo-stub

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