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Etymology
Abelardo Luz, town whose first inhabitants were the indigenous people of the Guarani ethnic groups and Caingangue and settlers of Minas Gerais, followed later by immigrants who came from São Paulo, Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul and the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Italian and German immigrants, the city was so named because it honors the son of the governor Hercílio Luz, who called the old bridge connecting the mainland to the island of Santa Catarina.

Origins and settlement
In 1953, the so-called "Velho Chapecó" was first dismembered. At that time, eight more municipalities have been founded, including Xanxerê, of which Abelardo Luz was one of one districts, rising, however, to that condition, already in 1917, with the name "Passo das Flôres". Their lands may have been partly visited and used in the 19th century, during the creation of the Xanxerê Military Colony.

However, its territory was only effectively populated in the 20th century, increasing colonization in the penultimate decades of that time, after people especially arrived from Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo and Paraná.

Administrative formation and recent history
On June 21, 1958, through State Law No. 348, Abelardo Luz became politically emancipated, and the municipality was installed on July 27 of that year. The first mayor appointed was Mr. Gerônimo Rodrigues and Maurício Rodrigues da Costa, the first ruler who was elected.

As a territory, it is the largest municipality in territorial extension in the west of Santa Catarina, with 955.368 km². It has beautiful fields and is in the municipalities of Santa Catarina in which the opportunity is found by mechanized agriculture, because its terrain is undulating flat.

The extraction industry is the main economic activity in the municipality. The municipality in question, which is limited to Paraná, at the same time that farming is developed in several sectors, is enriched by araucaria and countless species of "hardwoods", apart from yerba mate.

The municipality received this name because it honors Abelardo Venceslau da Luz, descendant of Hercílio Luz.