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![[Flag of Douradina, PR (Brazil)]](../images/b/br-pr-101.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 1 February 2022
and Tomislav Todorovic, 17 February 2022The municipality of Douradina (8,621 inhabitants in 2018; 41,985 ha) is
located 630 km north-west of Curitiba.
Douradina was established in the
1950s by Salvador Lopes Gomes (d. 1996), from Maringá. After having navigated on
rivers Paraná and Ivaí, he walked another three days through the forest to reach
the domain he had acquired. The building of a first road to Umuarama required
the erection of three wooden bridges. Shoju Sato, his son Cāndido Sato and
another young man known as Vaquizaqui, surveyed the domain and delimited plots
sold to colonists coming from Maringá and São Jorge.
Douradina is named for
the Serra dos Dourados mountains; the town's founder eventually preferred
Douradina to Douradinha.
https://www.douradina.pr.gov.br/
Municipal website
The flag of
Douradina is yellow with a blue triangle placed along the hoist and nearly
reaching the fly, itself charged with a white triangle inscribing the municipal
coat of arms.
Photos
https://www.facebook.com/camaramunicipaldouradina/photos/912866829145748
https://www.facebook.com/camaramunicipaldouradina/photos/709040699528363
Ivan Sache, 1 February 2022