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It is considered the most "German" city in Brazil. Many towns in Southern Brazil have a majority of German-descent citizens. [29] Sometimes, Germans surnames were adapted or changed in Brazil to a more "understandable" writing in Portuguese since many were incomprehensible to Brazilians.
Pomerode was founded by Pomeranians in 1861 and is considered the "most typically German of all German towns of southern Brazil". One very remarkable characteristic about Pomerode is the fact that 90% of its residents speak German. [4] There is also a group of people in the community who speak the East Pomeranian dialect of Low German. [5]
Half-timbered buildings in the Aldeia do Imigrante Park in Nova Petrópolis, a typical construction type of German colonial architecture.. The German colonization in Rio Grande do Sul was a large-scale and long-term project of the Brazilian government, motivated initially by the desire to populate the south of Brazil, ensuring the possession of the territory, threatened by Spanish neighbors.
The main ethnic origin of the city inhabitants are German and Italian. [5] The city displays many historical and cultural reminders of their heritage, such as houses and other buildings built in traditional German styles, statues, and memorials. Blumenau, compared to other Brazilian cities, has a very high Human Development Index, 0.806 as of ...
The population is largely of Polish or German ancestry, with many tracing ancestry to the Hunsrück region of Germany, which has a higher than average twinning rate. [6] The rate in Cândido Godói could reflect genetic founder effect : rare genetic traits occurring by chance among a small group founding a community will be more common among ...
Gramado is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is located in the Serra Gaúcha region. The city was originally settled by Azorean descendants and later received a contingent of German and Italian immigrants. Gramado is one of the cities along the scenic route known as Rota Romântica (Romantic Route).
A sign in Urussanga with its twin town, Longarone Map of Brazil. This is a list of municipalities in Brazil which have standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
Most of the German immigrants that arrived in Brazil and Mexico went on to live in small inland communities. The original 58 German communities of the early 19th century Brazil, grew today to over 250 towns where Germans are a majority, and German-speaking is encouraged.