Florianópolis

[ flawr-ee-uh-nop-uh-lis, flohr-; Portuguese flaw-ryuh-naw-poo-lees ]

noun

1. a seaport in and the capital of Santa Catarina state, on an island off the southern coast of Brazil.

Florianópolis

/ floriəˈnɔpulis /

noun

1. a port in S Brazil, capital of Santa Catarina state, on the W coast of Santa Catarina Island. Pop: 884 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Black Coffee's plane, which was travelling on Sunday from the Brazilian city of Florianopolis, was forced to make an emergency landing at an airport in Uruguay's capital, Montevideo.

From BBC

Vasques’ arrest took place in Brazil’s southern city of Florianopolis and he will be taken by a police plane to Brasilia, the capital, the source said.

From Reuters

Lopes, whose office in the Santa Catarina state capital of Florianopolis is cluttered with boxes of seized Nazi paraphernalia, said he now spends much of his day on the dark web, where fascists congregate to avoid the prying eyes of law enforcement.

From Reuters

“They wait for dolphins to signal exactly where fish are – the most common signal is what locals call ‘a jump,’ or a sudden deep dive,” said Cantor, who is also affiliated with the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianópolis, Brazil.

From Seattle Times

Rodrigo Jorge Amaral, 44, owns a tourism company in Florianópolis, the capital of Santa Catarina state on Brazil’s southern coast.

From Washington Post