Picada Café or Kaffeeschneiss in the local German dialect (i.e.
Riograndenser Hunsrückisch
Hunsrik (natively and Portuguese ''Hunsrik'' or ''Hunsrückisch''), also called ''Riograndenser Hunsrückisch'' or ''Katharinensisch'', is a Moselle Franconian language derived primarily from the Hunsrückisch dialect of West Central German. T ...
) is a municipality in the state of
Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...
,
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. It is located around 80 kilometers from the state capital of
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre (, , Brazilian ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of 1,488,252 inhabitants (2020) makes it the List of largest cities in Brazil, twelfth most populous city in the country ...
.
Economy
The local economy depends largely on small farming;
[''A História Agrária da Picada do Café por Sinésio Geromir Klauck, curso de planejamento e gestão para o desenvolvimento rural - Plageder, Departamento de Ciências Econômicas, Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Porto Alegre, Aug. 1, 2011.](_blank)
/ref> and increasingly on national (internal) tourism which in turn revolves around its Germanic roots and traditions, perceived as exotic.
Minority language
Since its foundation in 1840s[Prefeitura Municipal de Picada do Café: Histórico (Website accessed on Nov. 10, 2013).](_blank)
/ref> and from its pioneering days onward, the Riograndenser Hunsrückisch
Hunsrik (natively and Portuguese ''Hunsrik'' or ''Hunsrückisch''), also called ''Riograndenser Hunsrückisch'' or ''Katharinensisch'', is a Moselle Franconian language derived primarily from the Hunsrückisch dialect of West Central German. T ...
language, a Brazilian variety of German largely based on the Rhine Franonian, has been present in this community.
There are many other municipalities with this bilingual profile throughout the state. In 2012 the state chamber of deputies voted unanimously in favor of recognizing this Germanic dialect an official historical culture good to be preserved.[LEI 14.061 - DECLARA INTEGRANTE DO PATRIMÔNIO HISTÓRICO E CULTURAL DO ESTADO DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL A “LÍNGUA HUNSRIK”, DE ORIGEM GERMÂNICA](_blank)
/ref>[LEI Nº 14.061, de 23 de julho de 2012 - Declara integrante do patrimônio histórico e cultural do estado do Rio Grande do Sul a língua hunsrik, de origem germânica](_blank)
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See also
* List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul
*Serra Gaúcha
The Serra Gaúcha (''Gaucho Highlands'') is a cultural region comprising the mountainous areas in the northeastern portion of Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil. Most of its inhabitants are of German and Italian ancestry. Consequently, th ...
References
Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul
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