Barra da Lagoa

Barra da Lagoa is a small fishing village in the city of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The village is set on the mouth of a tidewater channel that flows in and out of the Island's sizable lagoon, the Lagoa da Conceição. The channel is at the end of a long beach made up of Praia Barra da Lagoa (English:Barra da Lagoa Beach) and Mozambique Beach which form a single 14 km stretch of beach.^[1][2][3]

Barra da Lagoa
District
Barra da Lagoa Barra da Lagoa in Brazil
Coordinates: 27°34′41″S 48°25′48″W
Country	Brazil
State	Santa Catarina
City	Florianópolis
Population  (2000)
• Total	4,331
Time zone	UTC−03:00 (Brasília time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−02:00 (Brasília summer time)

Barra da Lagoa is home to a turtle preservation centre operated by Projeto TAMAR.^[4]