[6] In 1882, the project of the construction of roads in central Paraná attracted the first families to the region.

Firmo Mendes de Queiroz, descended from bandeirantes, settled there, living on agriculture.

He built a chapel, giving birth to a place called "Vilinha" (Little Village) by its inhabitants.

[8] Nowadays, Prudentópolis is home to the largest population of Ukrainian descent in Brazil (75% of the municipality's inhabitants).

It is (the sole) suffragan of the Metropolitan Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of São João Batista em Curitiba, who heads the only proper Eastern rite ecclesiastical province in Brazil.