The Região das
Hortênsias, in English "
Hydrangea
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Flower Region", is a tourist destination in the
Serra Gaúcha region of 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 s ...
,
Brazil
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. The cities in this region are:
Nova Petrópolis,
Gramado,
Canela and
São Francisco de Paula.
The Região das Hortênsias was created in 1989 to foment tourism in the area; However, the Região das Hortênsias is officially a "sindicato" or
union established to help business development in the
hospitality
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sector throughout the region.
Some in the region still speak
German
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* Germany, the country of the Germans and German things
**Germania (Roman era)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
or the Brazilian variation of the German Hunsrückisch dialect called
Riograndenser Hunsrückisch
Hunsrik (natively ''Hunsrik'' , ''Hunsrückisch'' or ''Hunsrickisch'' and Portuguese ''hunsriqueano'' or ''hunsriqueano riograndense''), also called Riograndese Hunsrik, ' or ', is a Moselle Franconian language derived primarily from the Hunsrà ...
.
External links
Região das Hortênsias website(in Portuguese)
Geography of Rio Grande do Sul
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