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5 July 2012
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image by Dirk Schönberger,
5 July 2012
The municipality of Maravilha (24,345 inhabitants in 2015; 16,944 ha) is
located 620 km west of Florianópolis.
Maravilha wes established in 1951
by the Companhia Territorial Sul Brasil, established in 1925. Originally known
as Mancha da Pinhais (Pinewood), the place was renamed to Maravilha (Wonderful)
to attract more colonists. The local tradition says that the new name was coined
by a group of hunters viewing the then wild landscape from the top of the hill
that overlooks the town.
The establishment of Maravilha is credited to José
Leal Filho (1902-1972), also a noted poet under the name of Juca Ruivo.
Appointed administrator by the colonizing company, he promoted a harmonious
development of the town, pushing the erection of churches, schools and a
hospital.
The municipality of Maravilha was established by State Law No. 348
promulgated on 21 June 1958, and inaugurated on 27 July 1958.
Maravilha
was proclaimed Children's Town by Federal Law No. 12,596 promulgated in 2012.
The town has been informally known as Children's Capital since 1970, when a
population census confirmed the high rate of birth and education in the town.
Visitors were already amazed by the first civic parade organized on 7 September
1954, which involved the municipality's numerous schools and children. Officials
invited in subsequent parades described the town's streets as "adorned with
children".
https://www.maravilha.sc.gov.br/
Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 4 November 2021
Horizontally divided, white-yellow-green-yellow-white, 6-1-1-1-3, with a large red arrowhead over all, and over that two overlapping disks, yellow bordered red and blue, and green in the overlap area, bearing the name MARAVILHA.
Official website at
http://www.maravilha.sc.gov.br
Dirk Schönberger, 5 July 2012
The flag of Maravilha is prescribed by Municipal Law No. 959 promulgated on
30 October 1984.
Article 1.
The flag prescribed by Law No. 344
promulgated on 15 May 1970, adopted in a public contest won by Pr. Francisco
Gialdi, shall have the following design and colors.
1. Design. On a white
background - symbolizing peace and order - a red airplane flying. This is the
municipality of Maravilha prepared to rise. To rise always. To rise higher. The
plane's body - a yellow circle over a blue one, their combination resulting in
green, in the center (complementation theory) - symbolizing diversity and unity:
diverse races - diverse beliefs - diverse colors - diverse ideas - diverse
cultures - diverse origins - diverse ideologies - diverse social positions -
diverse feelings - diverse political conceptions - diverse resources. But a sole
ideal, a sole goal: growth, unity and development of Maravilha.
Everyone to
reach this goal:
The flying plane:: the infinite for goal.
Elevated ideas
cultivated by Maravilha's people.
2. Colors
The green-yellow stripe -
the national colors - symbolizes national incorporation. Red is the main coloir
of the flag of Santa Catarina.
Maravilha is not an isolated municipality. It
belongs to a state (Santa Catarina), symbolized by the plane's color, red, and
is a living cell pf Brazil, symbolized by the green-yellow stripe.
https://leismunicipais.com.br/a/sc/m/maravilha/lei-ordinaria/1984/96/959/lei-ordinaria-n-959-1984-oficializa-a-bandeira-e-o-brasao-do-municipio-de-maravilha-e-da-outras-providencias
Leis Municipais database
Photos
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituramaravilha/photos/1631047010393940
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituramaravilha/photos/1476839889147987
https://www.facebook.com/prefeituramaravilha/photos/1359447964220514
https://www.facebook.com/camaramaravilha/photos/1245923758905714
https://www.facebook.com/camaramaravilha/photos/710851665746262
Ivan Sache, 4 November 2021
