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City in Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil

Palhoça

Palhoça is a municipality in eastern Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Palhoça
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The place

Palhoça is a municipality in eastern Santa Catarina, Brazil. It is located on the Atlantic coast, 17 km from the state’s capital, Florianópolis.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Historic Downtown (Centro Historico).

  1. 01
    Parish Church of Saint Joseph

    Founded in 1750, rebuilt in 1845, and remodelled many times.

  2. 02
    São José Max Hablitzel Botanical Garden

From Wikivoyage: Palhoça, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Balneario Guararema Beach

    A beach with restaurants.

  2. 02
    Guarda do Embaú Beach

    A clean beach with a fishing village, beautiful views, and very good trails.

From Wikivoyage: Palhoça, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Palhoça

Airports
Hercílio Luz (FLN), 12 km · Ministro Victor Konder (NVT), 85 km · Curitiba-Afonso Pena (CWB), 241 km
  • Navegantes → Palhoça
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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  • Curitiba → Palhoça
    254 km · quickest by road, 5h 15m · R$80–110
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  • Porto Alegre → Palhoça
    364 km · quickest by air, 4h 16m · R$310–480
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Palhoça

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Palhoça. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inSummer months (December through March) several daily charter flights arrive from Argentina and Chile.

From Wikivoyage: Florianopolis, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Ilha GrandeBR

    10 ways of moving, 20 sources

    674 km
  2. 02
    Morro de São Paulo and Ilha de TinharéBR

    9 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,881 km
  3. 03
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    2,007 km
  4. 04
    San Pedro de AtacamaCL

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,031 km
  5. 05
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

    2,442 km

If you know how people move in Palhoça – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Palhoça

Palhoça is 13 km from Florianópolis, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • São Josémunicipality of Santa Catarina state, Brazil5.1 km
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