The city LAGEADO was devastated between the 5th and 7th of September 2023 by one of the biggest floods in its history. The volume of rain was so high that it raised the level of the Taquari River in an astonishing way, destroying many homes in Lajeadense, infrastructure and unfortunately even taking many lives. Your beautiful people are now working to rebuild themselves. Lajeado is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, located 113 km from the capital, Porto Alegre. It belongs to the Santa Cruz do Sul-Lajeado geographic region and the immediate region of Lajeado, being its most populous city. The IBGE revised population from the 2022 Census was 92,951 inhabitants, distributed over 91,231 km², which makes Lajeado one of the ten cities with the highest population density in the state. The name Lajeado comes from the reference point given to the sesmarias. In the Taquari River and Arroio do Engenho, the waters formed cascades over flagstones, hence the name of the city. However, due to the Bom Retiro do Sul dam, the Taquari flagstones, as well as its waterfalls, are submerged. In 1855, the Conventos Colony received its first immigrants and, in 1857, it already had 168 inhabitants, of which 81 men and 87 women, 49 of whom arrived that year from Europe. The following year, 20 more settlers arrived, thus distributing the population according to religion and nationality: 40% Brazilians and 60% Germans. Of this total, 100 were male and 88 female. The colony produced beans, corn, potatoes, wheat, broad beans and barley. There was also Italian immigration, notably in the old districts of Marques de Souza, Progresso and Fão, which began years later. There was also colonization by Portuguese-Brazilians on a smaller scale. Regional Language: Riograndenser Hunsrückisch, or Riograndense Hunriqueano in Portuguese, is a South Brazilian minority language of Germanic origin spoken since pioneering times in Lajeado as well as by thousands of people spread across several other municipalities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul and even in adjacent regions . Sept 08, 2022 SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL! BE A MEMBER OF THE CHANNEL CHECK OUT ALL OUR VIDEOS! .
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