Founding Day of Jaguariaiva Municipality in Brazil

Jaguariaíva is a municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil. In Jaguariaíva, the summers are long, warm, and mostly cloudy; the winters are short, cool, and partly cloudy; and it is wet year round.

The municipality began as an overnight resting point for muleteers troops in the late Seventeenth century. It has undergone a forestry and pulp industry boom throughouth the Twentieth Century. Consequently, nowadays Jaguariaíva supplies the Brazilian and international markets with resin, cheap wood for construction, plywood, paper pulp, lightweight coated and newsprint papers.

The municipality contains part of the 1,830 hectares (4,500 acres) Cerrado State Park, created in 1992.