PENHA - SC - ( SOUTHERN BRAZIL ) Penha is a city on the coast of Santa Catarina ( state of south of Brazil ) . Penha is known to be the seat of Beto Carrero World - largest theme park in Latin America and fifth in the world. In the 18th century when Spaniards invaded the Island of Santa Catarina ( Florianópolis ) , Portuguese fishermen - in most Azorean - escaping from invaders and seeking new locations for hunting and processing whales , settled in the area and gave the start to the hamlet of Penha . The easel Itapocoroy then became established at the time of a major whaling frames of southern Brazil . Cradle Carijós native Indians , the landmark of the town was the construction of the Chapel of St. John the Baptist in 1759 in a place called Itapocoroy (derived from the Guarani " Itapocorá " whose sense defines as being " like a stone wall " ) . The community Itapocoroy for having " status " of whaling frame and is therefore in a particular location, can not be elevated to the parish during the operation as a business venture. A new community , created six kilometers Frame for displaced residents of cores Itapocoroy had enough to be elevated to a parish on March 23, 1839 , with the name of the Parish of Our Lady of Penha Itapocoroy progress. In the nineteenth century the hunt was in crisis and was replaced by artisanal fisheries and trade as rudimentary subsistence. Its tourist development began in the 70s and today its population is around 20 thousand inhabitants , reaching over the 100 000 during the summer season . Penha , expanding, sees an infrastructure arise in the hotel and restaurants, while also growing mariculture - the cultivation of shellfish . http://www.dv3video.com.br/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjbTs_5_hIg

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