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Palhoça
City in Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil

Palhoça

Palhoça is a municipality in eastern Santa Catarina, Brazil.

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It is located on the Atlantic coast, 17 km from the state’s capital, Florianópolis.

Get in

Getting to Palhoça

BR-101 cuts across the city from Palhoça and the South of the state, and from Balneário Camboriú and other points north BR-282 connects from Lages and other cities in the Serrana region to the west, and with Florianópolis just to the east

See

Worth seeing

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
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.

How locals move

Getting around Palhoça the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Ctseelig (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.