Flor do Sertão
Flor do Sertão is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Santa Catarina. It is located at a latitude of 26º46'39" south and a longitude of 53º20'51" west, at an altitude of 302 meters. It is the third least populous municipality in Santa Catarina.
History
The name Flor do Sertão, according to the oldest residents, comes from a tree with yellow flowers found in the middle of the forest at the beginning of colonization, which they believed to be the Yellow Ipê, a tree that became a symbol of the municipality.
In the territory of Flor do Sertão, lies the Flor do Sertão Small Hydroelectric Power Plant , built on the Antas River, a tributary of the Uruguay River basin. The project is the result of an inter-cooperation project between eight cooperatives from Santa Catarina that joined together to form the company Mauê S/A: Aurora Coop, Cooperalfa, Ceraçá, Cooper A-1, Cooperitaipu, Copérdia, Coopercampos and Auriverde.