Italian-Brazilians

[quaquaraqua]

Amazing people and pictures! Thanks for sharing

[Tacitus]

My great-great grandfather left Calabria for Brazil in the early 1900s with the intent on starting a business, but unfortunately died at sea. Interesting to think how things would've ended up if he made it and brought the rest of the family over.

[Smaug]

My great-great grandfather left Calabria for Brazil in the early 1900s with the intent on starting a business, but unfortunately died at sea. Interesting to think how things would've ended up if he made it and brought the rest of the family over.

And your great-great-grandmother stayed I assume? That was common amongst South Italians who came to Brazil. If he had succeeded you would be my neighbour.

[Tacitus]

And your great-great-grandmother stayed I assume? That was common amongst South Italians who came to Brazil. If he had succeeded you would be my neighbour.

Yep she stayed with my great grandfather and his brother and sister.

And actually, we would've be neighbors since he was headed for Sao Paulo.

[Smaug]

Yep she stayed with my great grandfather and his brother and sister.

And actually, we would've be neighbors since he was headed for Sao Paulo.

Bad for you mate

[Ulla]

Italian-Brazilians from Nova Trento, in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil, originally from Trentino, Italy

[Ulla]

Nova Trento

[Petry]

Some people from the region of Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. Mostly of Venetian and Lombardian ancestry.

[curupira]

Italian-Brazilians from Nova Trento, in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil, originally from Trentino, Italy

I have visited Nova Trento, it looks like XIX century Italy. I was really amazed at how much Italian it was. I've been to Caxias do Sul too, which is quite Italian as well. In Brazil, contrary to the rest of Americas, entirely rural Italian communities developed, in the interior. The other Italian immigrants, to the other American countries, largely settled in the urban areas.

[curupira]

Among all Italians who immigrated to Brazil, 70% went to the State of São Paulo. In consequence, São Paulo has more people with Italian ancestry than any region of Italy itself. The rest went mostly to the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Cataria, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. .

These are the numbers by state:

Apenas seis estados brasileiros concentraram a quase totalidade da imigração italiana no Brasil. Eles foram, em ordem de importância, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Santa Catarina e Paraná. O estado de São Paulo foi, de longe, aquele que mais recebeu imigrantes no Brasil. Dos cerca de 1,5 milhão de italianos que imigraram para o Brasil entre os anos de 1875 e 1935, 1,2 milhão deles foram para São Paulo, 100 mil para o Rio Grande do Sul, 60 mil para Minas Gerais, 25 mil para o Espírito Santo, 25 mil para Santa Catarina e 20 mil para o Paraná.

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imigra%...iana_no_Brasil

1,2 million Italians to São Paulo
100000 to Rio Grande do Sul
60000 Italians to Minas Gerais
25000 Italians to Espírito Santo
25000 Italians to Santa Catarina
20000 Italians to Paraná

The numbers to Santa Catarina are smaller but the impact there was stronger IMO, since it was not that much populated, and entirely isolated communities grew out to become entire cities, the same thing happening in Rio Grande do Sul, and also (to a lower extent) in Espírito Santo (Venda Nova do Imigrante, f.e).