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Pomerode () is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Santa Catarina, in Southern Brazil. It is located in the valley of the Itajaí-Açu river, not very far from the city of Blumenau, one of the largest cities in the state.
Pomerode is known as the most German city in Brazil, because the vast majority of its inhabitants are of German Brazilian descent and are bilingual in German language and Portuguese. The East Pomeranian dialect of Low German is also used by the community.
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One very remarkable characteristic about Pomerode is the fact that 90% of its residents speak German. There is also a group of people in the community who speak the East Pomeranian dialect of Low German.
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| Race/Skin color | Percentage | Number |
| White Brazilian | 92.01% | 25,542 |
| Pardo Brazilian (Multiracial) | 7.19% | 1,996 |
| Afro-Brazilian | 0.61% | 169 |
| Asian Brazilians | 0.14% | 38 |
| Amerindian | 0.05% | 13 |
| Religion | Percentage | Number |
| Catholics | 31.17% | 6,896 |
| 66.39% | 14,690 | |
| No religion | 0.98% | 217 |
| Kardecism | 0.13% | 29 |
are 63.76% of the population, as German Pomerania was traditionally overwhelmingly Lutheran. Over time, some of the Pomeranians converted to Catholicism, and Catholics from the rest of Brazil moved into the town.
The tourist industry of nearby Blumenau (about away) is very well developed attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors annually to its festivals such as Oktoberfest of Blumenau, the largest one in the world after the original festival in Munich. Naturally, this has generated a very positive impact on the tourist industry of much smaller Pomerode.
In addition to tourism the economy is dependent on industry, which includes knitted clothing, plastic articles, state of the art metal and mechanical industries, garments and cloth, and furniture.
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