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![[Flag of Ipira
SC (Brazil)]](../images/b/br-sc-116.gif) image by Ivan Sache, 
3 November 2021
  image by Ivan Sache, 
3 November 2021 
Source: 
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipira
The municipality of Ipira (4,752 inhabitants in 2010; 15,030 ha) is located 
450 km west of Florianópolis.
Ipira was named for two Tupi-Guarani words, 
"i", meaning "water", and "pira", meaning "fish". This is a translation from the 
original name of Colônia do Rio do Peixe (Fish River Colony), established in the 
1910s by colonists coming from the town of Montenegro and other places of Rio 
Grande do Sul.
The district of Ipira was established in 1924, depending on 
Cruzeiro (today, Joaçaba) and successively transferred to Concórdia (1934), 
Campos Novos (1938), Piratuba (1949), and, eventually Peritiba (1962).
The 
municipality of Ipira was established by State Law No. 888 promulgated on 14 
June 1963 and inaugurated on 15 August 1963.
https://www.ipira.sc.gov.br/ 
Municipal website
Ivan Sache, 3 November 2021
A horizontal tribar, blue-yellow-blue with a narrow horizontal red stripe in the centre of the yellow bar, with the municipal arms on a yellow triangle extending from the hoist.
Official website at
http://www.ipira.sc.gov.br
Dirk Schönberger, 20 June 2012  
Photo
https://www.facebook.com/IPIRAOFICIAL/photos/167668981946301 
Ivan Sache, 3 November 2021