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*They typically live in the '''Southeastern Paraguayan departments of Canindeyú and Alto Paraná, which border with Brazil'''. Most emigrated from Brazil by the 1960s. In total they make up 455,000 Brasiguaios as of 2001, or about one-tenth of Paraguay's population. | *They typically live in the '''Southeastern Paraguayan departments of Canindeyú and Alto Paraná, which border with Brazil'''. Most emigrated from Brazil by the 1960s. In total they make up 455,000 Brasiguaios as of 2001, or about one-tenth of Paraguay's population. | ||
*In some border zones, Brasiguayos and their descendants are more than 90% of the population, where Portuguese is still spoken as the mother tongue. In '''San Alberto de Mbaracayú city''', approximately 80% of its 23,000 inhabitants are of Brazilian ancestry. <ref>"Brasiguayos", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasiguayos, accessed 19 May 2021.</ref> | *In some border zones, Brasiguayos and their descendants are more than 90% of the population, where Portuguese is still spoken as the mother tongue. In '''San Alberto de Mbaracayú city''', approximately 80% of its 23,000 inhabitants are of Brazilian ancestry. <ref>"Brasiguayos", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasiguayos, accessed 19 May 2021.</ref> | ||
====German Paraguayans==== | |||
*The German minority in Paraguay came into existence with immigration during the industrial age. The '''"Nueva Germania" colony''' was founded in Paraguay in 1888; though regarded as a failure, still exists despite being abandoned by many of its founders in the 1890s. | |||
*Paraguay was a popular place for '''German leaders accused of war crimes''' to retreat after the second World War. | |||
*Also, there is a large minority of German descendants living in the department of Itapúa, mainly in the Departmental Capital, Encarnación and the German town of Hohenau. Most of the Germans who settle in this region came from the '''larger German colonies from neighboring Brazil and Argentina'''. | |||
*Another large group of Germans who immigrated to Paraguay are '''Russian Mennonites, Germans who immigrated to Russia under the rule of the ethnic German Czarina Catherine the Great'''. The Paraguayan Mennonite community left Russia in two waves: the first in the 19th century when their exemption from military service ended, and the second to avoid Stalin's collectivization programs. | |||
*The move to Paraguay was difficult for the Russian Mennonites, because they were new to the climate. Some Russian Mennonites left Paraguay for neighboring '''Argentina'''. | |||
*The Russian Mennonites settled in the Boquerón Department in Paraguay. They established the Fernheim Colony, which includes the town of Filadelfia; Neuland Colony; and Menno Colony. The descendants of the Russian Mennonite immigrants continue to live these colonies.<ref>"Germans in Paraguay", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germans_in_Paraguay, accessed 13 June 2021.</ref> | |||
==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||