Itapema

Itapema is a city in Santa Catarina, Brazil. The Azoreans already in the communities of Sao Miguel and Santo Antonio were responsible for the settlement of the bay of Porto Belo, where they helped found the parish of Porto Belo on December 18, 1824, later transformed into a village on October 13, 1832. It is realized that in 1852, it was accepted that somewhere in the range of 980 Portuguese and Azorean relatives as of now lived in territories of the present district of Itapema. This figure alludes to the quantity of 51 plants of cassava flour and sugar. It was extremely normal for families to have the two kinds of plants. Statistic development until the point that the mid-nineteenth century was moderate.

From the finish of this century, Itapema gets outsiders of German, Italian and Spanish cause who before long wind up converging with the number of inhabitants in Azorean starting point. These different people groups practice minimal neighborhood social impact, since the merriments, for example, the devour of the patroness - Our Lady of the Navigators - other than the recreations, for example, Farra do Boi, Boi-de-Mamao and Cantorias do Terno-de-Reis and celebrations of the Divine were brought and kept up by the Azoreans.