Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul
Municipality in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Montenegro, Brazil" redirects here. Not to be confused with Monte Negro, Rondônia.
Montenegro is a municipality of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. As of 2020, it has 65,721 inhabitants.
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Montenegro | |
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Coordinates: 29°41′20″S 51°27′39″W | |
Country | Brazil |
State | Rio Grande do Sul |
Population (2020 [1]) | |
• Total | 65,721 |
Time zone | UTC−3 (BRT) |
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The town was established in 1847 to be settled primarily by German immigrants from the Hunsrück region of southwest Germany. The local language was Riograndenser Hunsrückisch for most of its history, and it is still spoken there after 150 years of the initial settlement. Today, however, Portuguese prevails, mostly as a result of the campaign of the "Nacionalização" (Nationalization) forcefully imposed on all German and Italian settled areas of southern Brazil by president and dictator Getúlio Vargas in the 1940s.