Vargeão is a municipality located in the state of Santa Catarina in the

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of Brazil. 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,

Florianópolis Florianópolis () is the capital and second largest city of the state of Santa Catarina, in the South region of Brazil. The city encompasses Santa Catarina Island and surrounding small islands, as well as part of the mainland. It has a populat ...

. 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 impact crater, the

Vargeão Dome Vargeão Dome is a meteorite crater in Santa Catarina State, Brazil, straddling the municipalities of Vargeão, Faxinal dos Guedes, and Passos Maia. The crater is an almost perfectly circular depression with steep walls, in diameter and up to ...

. 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 Italian 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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