Pomerode - SC, Brazil

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 descent and are bilingual in german and portuguese.

Pomerode was founded by pomeranian germans in 1861 and is considered the "most typically German of all German towns of southern Brazil".
One very remarkable characteristic about Pomerode is the fact that 90% of its residents speak German, more specifically the east pomeranian dialect.
In Pomerode, as in some other localities in southern Brazil ( Santa Maria de Jetibá, Espirito Santo, among them), the German language is not a foreign languaje, but a Brazilian linguistic regionalism.
For a good part of the 20th century, the Brazilian government did not encourage people to speak German. At times it was actively repressed and prohibited, as during Getúlio Vargas's presidency. Today, after a long period of suppression, German is part of the curriculum in local schools and tolerated if not always encouraged by regional governments throughout southern Brazil.
East Pomeranian (not to be confused with Slavic Kashubian which is in English called Pomeranian) is spoken by most town inhabitants of Pomerode, along with Portuguese, mainly by younger people. German-extraction Brazilians who are still bilingual speak the dialect of the regions they came from. In Santa Catarina this is Northern Germany, from Bremen to Danzig. In Rio Grande do Sul it is from the Hunsrück area south-west of Frankfurt and substantially different, at least to Germans.
The town government uses "Pomeroy" as the English translation of the town's name on its website, despite being etymologically incorrect