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Ivan Sache,
8 November 2021
The municipality of Três Barros (18,131 inhabitants in 2010; 43,807 ha) is
located on the border with Paraná, 360 km north-west of Florianópolis.
Três Barras was named for three rivers, Negro, São João and Canoinhas. In 1850,
José and Lucas Cordeiro were granted by Emperor Peter II a domain covering c.
30,000 ha, located between rivers Negro and Canoinhas. Left unexploited, the
domain was transferred in 1893 to Maria Cordeiro and Benvindo Pacheco dos Santos
Lima. They were soon joined by Colonel João Pacheco dos Santos Lima and his
wife, Rosa Pacheco dos Santos Lima, who are considered as Três Barras' earliest
colonists. The building of the railway connecting São Paulo to Rio Grande do Sul
by the Brazil Railway company attracted 8,000 people who permanently settled
there.
In 1910, the Southern Brazil Lumber & Colonization Company, owned by
Brazil Railway, was offered by the federal government, as a payment for the
building of the railway, a stripe of 15 km in width on each side of the railway.
Hundreds people living there were evicted by the company. The monopoly exerted
by the company on timber extraction along the railway was among the causes of
the Contestado War, which claimed from 1912 to 1916 more than 20,000 lives in
Santa Catarina and Paraná.
At the end of the war, Três Barras was
incorporated to Santa Catarina as a district of Canoinhas, inaugurated on 28
October 1917. The Southern Brazil Lumber S.A. was taken over by the federal
government in 1940; it was transferred in 1952 to the Ministry of War, which
established in Três Barras the Marechal Hermes Training Camp.
The
municipality of Três Barras was inaugurated on 23 January 1961.
https://tresbarras.sc.gov.br/
Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 8 November 2021
The flag of Três Barras is horizontally divided green-yellow with a white
triangle placed along the hoist and charged in the center with the municipal
coat of arms.
Photos
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituradetresbarras/photos/1199936417151887
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituradetresbarras/photos/1171893413289521
Ivan Sache, 8 November 2021