Quitandinha

Quitandinha
Municipality
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Country	Brazil
Region	Southern
State	Paraná
Mesoregion	Metropolitana de Curitiba
Population  (2020 [1])
• Total	19,221
Time zone	UTC−3 (BRT)

Quitandinha is a municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.^[2][3][4][5]

Etymology

The place name is based on the diminutive of the Kimbundu word kitanda (meaning "small market stall"). It dates back to the location's first restaurant on the BR-116 (then still called Estrada Estratégica). Its owner, Reinaldo Paolini, once stayed at the Hotel Palácio Quitandinha in Petrópolis. He was so impressed by this casino hotel that he named his restaurant after it. Over time, the name Quitandinha became common for the square on the major highway and later for the entire location.

The original name of the location was Areia Branca ("White Sand") because of the crystalline color of the sand that lay on the riverbanks after floods. Under this name, the location was elevated to a district by State Law No. 790 on November 14, 1951. It was only with its elevation to the status of a municipality in 1961 that it officially received the now more established name Quitandinha.^[6]

See also

• List of municipalities in Paraná

References

1. IBGE 2020
2. "Divisão Territorial do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Divisão Territorial do Brasil e Limites Territoriais, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). July 1, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
3. "Estimativas da população para 1º de julho de 2009" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Estimativas de População, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). August 14, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
4. "Ranking decrescente do IDH-M dos municípios do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano, Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD). 2000. Archived from the original on October 3, 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
5. "Produto Interno Bruto dos Municípios 2002-2005" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). December 19, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 2, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
6. João Carlos Vicente Ferreira (2006). Municípios paranaenses / origens e significados de seus nomes (PDF). Cadernos Paraná da Gente (in Brazilian Portuguese). Curitiba: Secretaria de Estado da Cultura. p. 254.

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