Cascavel

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Cascavel is a city in the state of Paraná in Brazil. It is the fifth most populous city in the state with 368,195 inhabitants, according to IBGE 2025 estimate. The distance to Curitiba, the state capital, is 491 kilometers by freeway.

Relatively new and with a privileged topography, Cascavel's development was planned, which gives it wide streets and well distributed neighborhoods. With an area of 2,100.831 km2, it is considered a strategic hub of Mercosul. It is the main city in the Cascavel Metropolitan Area.

The city is on a plateau 781 meters above sea level. It is 504 km west of the state capital of Curitiba and 605 km west of the sea port of Paranaguá, 140 km from the three borders (Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil) at 24° 58' South, 53° 26' West.

The name of the city means rattlesnake in Portuguese; it arises from a variation of the classical Latin "cascabus", meaning "bubbling water boiling". According to legend, a group of settlers camped one night in the region and they were woken by the sound of a rattle; later they realized they set up the camp next to a rattlesnake.

The Caingangue natives inhabited western Paraná, which...

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