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Extract from the Blumenau Travel Guides: Despite Joinville's challenge,
BLUMENAU
has succeeded in promoting itself as the "capital" of German Santa Catarina. Picturesquely located on the right bank of the Rio Itaja, Blumenau was founded in 1850 by Dr Hermann Blumenau, who served as director of the colony until his return to Germany in 1880. Blumenau always had a large Italian minority, but it was mainly settled by Germans and, as late as the 1920s, two-thirds of the population spoke German as their mother tongue. In the surrounding rural communities an even larger proportion of the population were German-speakers, many of them finding it completely unnecessary to le...
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