Brazil News Dispatch
BLUMENAU, Santa Catarina – The organizers of the Oktoberfest in Blumenau announced on Monday that attendance at the 28th edition of the event, which began on October 6th and ended on Sunday, reached 563,925 people. The event, held each year in German Village, attracted more visitors than had been expected by the organizing committee which projected an attendance of 550,000.
Click image to enlarge (Photo: Eraldo Schnaider)
Visitors consumed 626,547 liters of beer, representing a per-capita consumption of 1.11 liters. According to the president of German Village Park and the Central Organizing Committee, Norbert Mette, the 2011 festival was “the best Oktoberfest of recent years.”
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According to Mette, only on the 15th were there any problems at all, and that was due to the number of visitors—93.964 in one day. “With that number of people, there were bound to be problems,” he said. “Just moving from one pavilion to another was bound to cause injuries.”
The Blumenau event is widely considered to be the largest Oktoberfest celebration outside of Munich Germany
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