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since the first coal mine works in the 1880s. This works were made without any environmental or social prudence. The low quality coal produces too many reject material, which was continuously throw away in areas near the Tubarão tributary rivers. The
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Southern Santa Catarina Lagoon System, 75 miles (121 km) away. The main tributaries are the Braço do Norte river, Capivari river, Laranjeiras river and Congonhas river by the left bank and the Palmeiras river and Azambuja river by the right bank. The major tributary, the Braço
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were antagonized by a tribal chief called Tub-Nharô, which means
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and industries related to this new ascension economy. On the other hand, the environmental and life-quality degradation was in the negative balance. After the 1974 flood the Tubarão river was deeply modified.
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people circa 5,000 years ago. These peoples lived in the southern
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and has a similar pronunciation. By the 1740s, a few adventurers, slave traders and missionaries lived in this region. In those years the
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The Tubarão River basin drains an area of 2,177 square miles (5,640 km) in 20 municipalities comprising a population of about 350,000 people
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were built along its banks on the low areas and the river had its course rectified eliminating about 2 miles (3.2 km) of its meanders.
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Southern Brazil. In the later decades of the 1700s the river had important function as a fluvial way linking the
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