Vargeão is a

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located in the

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of Santa Catarina in the south region of

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. It is located in the Immediate Geographic Region of Xanxerê and the Intermediate Geographic Region of Chapecó and at 298 miles away from the capital of Santa Catarina,

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. Its population, according to the demographic census of the

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, carried out in 2022, is 3 634 inhabitants. The town is located on the southern rim of an

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, the

Vargeão Dome Vargeão Dome is a meteorite impact crater, crater in Santa Catarina (state), Santa Catarina State, Brazil, straddling the municipalities of Vargeão, Faxinal dos Guedes, and Passos Maia. The crater is an almost perfectly circular depression with ...

. Vargeão's city hall is located inside the crater. The local population is well aware of the impact origin of the structure, to the point that the town's official nickname is Meteor City (''Terra do Meteorro''). Its inhabitants are predominantly of

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descent. A large floodplain (in portuguese: várzea) in the area gave rise to the name Vargeão (very large floodplain, in portuguese).

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

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