Kariîó

Kariîó lies on the sheltered coast of Santa Catarina, at the inlet once known as Enseada das Garoupas. Indigenous people inhabited this coast before Portuguese settlement, and the name recalls the Carijó. Settlers from the Azores later came to occupy the area. In 1824 Porto Belo became a parish, and in 1832 the settlement was raised to the status of a town, taking the name Vila de Porto Belo.