contain important quotas of Germans.

In the state of São Paulo the Germans form to-day an urban rather than a
rural population. They are very strongly represented in São Paulo (the
capital), Campinas and Santos. The following towns and their vicinities
are also important centers of German population: Riberão Pires, São
Bernardo, Rocinha, Vallinhos, Helvetia, Nova Friburgo, Salto de Ytú,
Sorocaba, Botucatú, Riberão Preto, São João da Bôa Vista, Villa
Americana, Pires, Araras, Leme, Rio Claro, São Carlos do Pinhal, Santa
Rita do Passo Quatro, Santa Cruz das Palmeiras, Brotas, Dous Corregos,
Jahú, Villa Raffard, Piracicaba, and Jacarehy.[17]

Excepting the older colonies first mentioned, the German element in São
Paulo is largely made up as the result of indirect immigration; in the
early years from the Petropolis district, and later from the more
southern states and from Argentine.


PARANÁ.

The state colony of =Rio Negro= was founded in 1829[18] while this
section of Brazil was still within the limits of São Paulo.[19] Shortly
after its founding the colony was increased by the location of members
of the mustered-out German legion of the Imperial army.[20] Subsequently
many settlers from the São Bento district in Santa Catharina moved over
to this colony.

The following provincial colonies are settled largely by Germans or
German-speaking Austrians: =Jesuino Marcondes, Ivahy, Iraty,= all
founded in 1907; =Itapará= and =Tayó=, both founded in 1908; and =Vera