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Universities*Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), the only federal university in the state of Santa Catarina. Its website is (www.ufsc.br[1]) (In Portuguese)*Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), the State University of Santa Catarina. Its website is (www.udesc.br[2]) (In Portuguese) Beaches
*Jurerê - Very developed and organized; it has many large houses in private condominiums. *Brava - A quite small beach with wild waves (Brava means angry in portuguese), surrounded by buildings. Very popular specially in the summer among surfers and young people. *Canasvieiras - Popular among Argentinians and Uruguayans in the high season. *Ingleses - A family beach named after the survivors of an English shipwreck who formed a colony there, nowadays a thriving resort town. *Santinho - Has a well-known resort and 5,000 year old stoneworks can be observed at the rocky headland at the North end of the beach, where stoneage tribes sharpened arrowheads and other tools. *Moçambique - Part of the Rio Vermelho forestry reserve, popular with surfers, shelves steeply at high tide, there's a campsite within the reserve. It is the lengthiest beach in the city with more than 12km (about 8 miles) of sand. *Mole - Known for its soft, ankle-deep sand ("mole", [m'óli] means soft in Portuguese), this is where the local crowd come to be seen. Lots of surfers, bars, coconut stalls and places to hire beach equipment. Separated from Lagoa da Conceição by a narrow isthmus of cliffs. . *Joaquina - Famous as a location for one of the twelve *ASP World Tour tournaments and also for its sand dunes where sandboarding is practised. *Armação - Armação means trap and this is where Azorean whalers would begin driving South Atlantic Right whales towards the next, dead-end beach for slaughter. Nowadays it is a picturesque fishing village. *Matadeiro - A natural bay, one beach South of Armação, the name means "the killing place" and this is where Atlantic Right whales were beached and slaughtered - there are many whalebones still around today. The beach can only be reached by foot. SportsSoccerThere are two professional football (soccer) teams in the city. Both of them have 13 Santa Catarina State Championship titles, which is a state record. The derby between them is known as "O Clássico da Capital" ("The Capital Classic").*Avaí FC - blue and white. It is also known as O Leão da Ilha ("The Lion of the Island"). Its stadium is the Aderbal Ramos da Silva, popularly known as Ressacada, located in the Carianos neighborhood, in the south part of the island. Avaí is currently playing the Brazilian national second division. *Figueirense FC - black and white. Its nickname is Figueira ("Figtree") and it is also known as O Furacão do Estreito ("The Estreito Hurricane"). Its stadium is the Orlando Scarpelli, located in the Estreito neighborhood, in the continental part of the city. Figueirense is currently playing the Brazilian first division. TennisFlorianopolis is the hometown of tennis star Gustavo Kuerten.GalleryExternal links**Floripa Images Guide *Hotels in Florianopolis *Florianopolis Hotels *Florianópolis information and events site *Hotel booking at Florianópolis *Flickr photos tagged Florianópolis *Florianópolis Property
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