Germans in south America South America
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German population in Southern Brazil.
Less than 1% of population (Uruguay)
Between 1 – 5 % of population (State of São Paulo)
Between 5 – 10 % of population (State of Paraná)
Between 10 – 25 % of population (State of Rio Grande do Sul)
Around 35 % of population (State of Santa Catarina)
(Argentina) : Those of German ancestry constitute about 8% of the Argentine population — over 3 million — most of them Volga Germans alone — about 2 million.[86] There are more than 400,000 of other German ancestries including Mennonites and German Swiss. These two groups are more common in Southern Argentina, and also in Santa Fe, Entre Rios and Cordoba provinces. A notable example is the town of Villa General Belgrano, founded by Germans in the 1930s. In the 1960s it became the site of the Fiesta Nacional de la Cerveza, or Oktoberfest, which has become a major attraction in Argentina.[87] By 1940, there were 250,000 people of German descent living in the country.[85] The German embassy in Argentina estimates that 660,000 Argentines, or 1.5% of the total population, are descendants of Germans who emigrated directly from Germany (It means that it doesn't includes other ethnic Germans who emigrated from Austria, Switzerland, Russia/USSR, etc.).[88][89] 50,000 German citizens live in Argentina.[9]
Nazi Minister Walther Darré was born in Argentina. After the Second World War, almost a thousand prominent Nazi leaders and politicians fled to Argentina. Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele were among them. Kurt Tank, who developed some of the greatest World War II aircraft fighters also entered Argentina in the late 1940s.[90]
There are about 500,000 German-speakers in Argentina,[91] slightly over 1% of population.
(Bolivia): There are 2 different German groups, the descendants of those who emigrated from Germany and Brazil (estimated in about a quarter of million, 2.0% of Bolivian population[92]), and the descendants of Mennonites that emigrated from Canada and Mexico (at least 85,000 of them live in agrarian communities).[93][94] Germans are 375,000 or 3% of Bolivian population.[20]
There are over 20,000 Standard German-speakers,[92] plus 85,000 Mennonite Low German-speakers.[93]
(Brazil): Mostly living in Southern Brazil. Brazil received 250,000 Germans between the 19th and 20th centuries; a source claimed there were 12 million people of German descent in 2000, 7% of the national population, but there are no official figures.[95] Hunsrückisch and East Pomeranian are some of the most prominent groups.[95][96][97]
By 1940, the German diaspora in Brazil amounted about a million.[85]
There are 3 million German-speakers in Brazil,[91] slightly over 1.5% of population.
(Chile): The German-Chilean Chamber of Commerce estimated at 500,000 the descendants of Germans, about 3% of the total population of Chile estimated at 16 million (in the same source).[98] There are 40,000 Standard German-speakers.[99]
(Paraguay) : 166,000 Standard German-speakers (including 18,000 Mennonites, who don't speak Plattdeutsch or Mennonite Low German), most Germans in Paraguay are of Brazilian descent and Portuguese speakers;[92] plus 20,000 Mennonite Low German, spoken by Mennonites who live in Chaco and Eastern Paraguay[92] The Mennonites emigrated to Paraguay from Chihuahua State (in Mexico), the Soviet Union, Canada, and Bolivia.[100][101] Non-Mennonites German emigrated to Paraguay mainly from Brazil, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the German Empire.[101]
Those of German ancestry are 290,000 or 4.4% of Paraguayan population.[26]
(Peru): The communities of Oxapampa, Pozuzo, and Villa Rica in the high jungles of the Peruvian Amazon basin were settled in the middle of the 19th century by Austrian and Prussian immigrants. Many of its present-day inhabitants speak German[102] In the 18th century, German immigrants settled the areas of Tingo Maria, Tarapoto, Moyobamba, and the Amazonas Department.[103] German immigrants largely settled in Lima, and to a lesser extent Arequipa.[104] Over 160,000 Peruvians are German-descendants.[105]
(Uruguay): By 1940, there were 10,000 Germans living in the country.[8