Palmeira

Palmeira is a Brazilian municipality inside the kingdom of Parana, inside the micro-location of Ponta Grossa. Its population as of 2010 was 32.125 inhabitants. Its vicinity is of about 1465,1 km². With the development of the Caminho de Viamao within the eighteenth century, many villages have been springing up inside the Campos Gerais location. With the defined settlement immigrants got here.

The Russian-Germans in 1878, the Poles in 1888 and the Italians in 1890 led with the aid of Giovanni Rossi, with the latter shaped the primary anarchist colony of America, Cecilia Colony. And, in 1951, got here the German Mennonites who founded the Witmarsum Colony and the Witmarsum Joint Agricultural Cooperative Ltd.Producer of dairy merchandise, and fowl with Cancela emblem. Created through State Law No. 238 of November 9, 1897, and hooked up at the equal date, it become separated from Ponta Grossa. Natural residents from Palmeira are called palmeirenses.