São Bento do Sul is considered to be an industrialized city.
There are many strong industries active in the region but the municipality is best known for its production of
furniture
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São Bento do Sul was first settled by the ''Kolonisations Verein von 1849, in Hamburg'', a 'for profit' colonization enterprise (as opposed to the State of provincial colonization efforts that were also taking place at that time) established in Hamburg, Germany.
Today there are different festivals celebrating the local population's
immigrant
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roots:
German
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* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
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Polish
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* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
*Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
Czech Brazilian
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C ...