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image by Dirk Schönberger,
20 August 2012
The municipality of Turvo (13,000 inhabitants in 2010; 23,394 ha) is located
250 km south-west of Florianópolis.
Turvo was established by the Italian
immigrants Marcos Rovaris and Martinho Guizzo, which were granted big plots by
the government as a reward for the construction of roads. In 1912, Ângelo
Rovaris acquired from his cousin Marcos a plot near river Turvo, which he soon
cleared and planted and cultivated. The two cousins established a flour mill and
a sawmill, attracting more colonists. In 1913, Antônio Bez Batti, from Urussanga,
initiated the clearing of the future site of the municipality. He constructed a
road, a shop and a chapel built with local timber.
The district of Turvoa was
established within Araranguá the municipality of Araranguá by Law No. 1,709
promulgated in 1930, and elevated a municipality in 1948, to be inaugurated on
20 March 1949.
https://www.turvo.sc.gov.br/
Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 8 November 2021
A vertical tricolour, green-yellow-red, with the municipal arms in the centre.
Official website at
http://www.turvo.sc.gov.br/home/index.php?
Dirk Schönberger,
20 August 2012
Yellow represents resources, referring to the municipality's fertile and
resistant soil. Green represents rainforest. Red represents the blood of the
colonists who explored the region's forests and lands.
The arms of the
municipality of Turvo are composed of a shield surmounted by a mural crown.
Placed between the crown and the shield's upper edge, a cross symbolizes
people's Christian spirit. The shield is basically divided into two quarters.
In the first quarter, in the upper central part, a cogwheel inscribing rice
panicles, representing industrialization of this crop as a big source of income
for the municipality. Right, a tobacco plant, and left, a maize plant, crops
also sources of income for the municipality. In the second quarter a rural
landscape, in the foreground a tractor plowing the soil, symbolizing mechanized
agriculture in the municipality. In the shield's lower outer part, a scroll
inscribed with the municipality's name and date of establishment. Between the
shield and the scroll, bananas representing yet another regional crop.
https://www.turvo.sc.gov.br/cms/pagina/ver/codMapaItem/22085
Municipal
website
Turvo is officially recognized as Brazil's Capital of Mechanized
Agriculture; it ranks Santa Catarina's third bigger rice producer.
The Santa
Catarina Tractor Pulling Festival is organized every year in August in Turvo.
https://www.turvo.sc.gov.br/cms/pagina/ver/codMapaItem/22084
Municipal
website
Photos
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituradeturvo.sc/photos/233628588696105
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituradeturvo.sc/photos/231322775593353
Ivan Sache, 8 November 2021