Panambi
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Coordinates: 28 ° 17 ′ S , 53 ° 30 ′ W Panambi on the map of Brazil
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| Country | Brazil | |
| State | Rio Grande do Sul | |
| Residents | 38,058 (2010) | |
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| surface | 491.48 km 2 | |
| Population density | 77 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| height | 418 m | |
| City Presidency | Daniel Hinnah | |
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Panambi is a municipality ( municipio ) in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and is located on the Rio-Grande Plateau.
Two major highways cross in Panambi: the BR-158 , which runs from north to south, and the BR-285, which runs from east to west .
Like many other cities in the area, it is shaped by the architecture of European immigrants. The majority of the population is of German descent.
In Panambi there is a campus of the Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (Regional University of the Northwest of Rio Grande do Sul), whose rectorate is in Ijuí . In 2010 the Instituto Federal Farroupilha was established with four free and five technical courses.
Place name
Panambi is a Tupi word and means "(river) valley of the butterflies", a union of Panama (butterfly, butterfly) and 'y (river). The municipality is also known by the nickname "City of Machines" because of its metal industry.
history
Until the arrival of the first European settlers in the sixteenth century, the region was inhabited by Guaraní and Kaingang .
The origin of today's city was the foundation of the colony Neu-Württemberg in 1899 . The German publisher Hermann Meyer bought land in Cruz Alta and settled German immigrants there who were already in Rio Grande do Sul. Meyer appointed Carlos Dhein , who was also of German descent , as the administrator of the settlement, and later from 1909 pastor Hermann Faulhaber , under whom the colony developed strongly. In 1919 178 families from Württemberg immigrants lived in the region .
In 1901 Neu Württemberg changed its name to Elsenau , after Hermann Meyer's wife. In 1938 it was called Pindorama , in 1944 Tabapirã , and in the same year it took its current name Panambi.
On December 15, 1954, Panambi was spun off from Cruz Alta and Palmeira das Missões as an independent municipality.
Sons and daughters of the church
In Panambi were born:
- Caroline Trentini (* 1987), model
- Élio Eugênio Müller (* 1944), Lutheran clergyman
- Raduan Nassar (* 1935), writer of Lebanese origin
literature
- Arable colonies of New Württemberg and Xingu in Rio Grande do Sul (southern Brazil) . Prospectus of the colonization company Dr. Hermann Meyer. Leipzig. 1906
- Faulhab Foundation (ed.). New Württemberg. A settlement of Germans in Rio Grande do Sul / Brazil. Foreign and home publishing house. Stuttgart. 1933
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro: Método Moderno de Tupi Antigo. 3. Edition. Global Editora, São Paulo 2005, p. 42.
- ↑ Theodor Koch-Grünberg. The Xingu Expedition (1898-1900): a research diary . Edited by Michael Kraus. Böhlau. Cologne. 2004. p. 427. Online at Google Books
- ^ Karl Heinrich Oberacker: The German contribution to building the Brazilian nation. 2nd edition in German. São Leopoldo 1978, p. 408ff.