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| FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil – Over 4,000 people and 1,284 dogs of various breeds participated on Sunday morning in the 13th annual communal dog walk, or Cãominhada, in Blumenau, Santa Catarina state, reported Folha de Sao Paulo.
Cãominhada Blumenau Brazil (Photo: Folha)
| FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil – To welcome the hottest season of the year, the city of Blumenau on Thursday, kicked off the sort of mini-Oktoberfest party called Sommerfest. Blumenau, in the Valley of Itajai, is most famous for its annual Oktoberfest – the second largest in the world – behind only Munich, Germany.
Blumenau Sommerfest (Photo: Jaime Batista da Silva/vc repórter/terra.com.br)
| FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil – Police arrested a man Friday morning after he chased a woman into a hotel in the city of Blumenau, 120 km (75 miles) from Florianopolis. The man, who was trying to attack the woman, was arrested a short time later as he was walking down the street naked, reported terra.com.br.
Blumenau Brazil (Photo: tripadvisor.com)
| FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil – Two laborers working on a residential highrise in Blumenau had to be rescued on Tuesday after their scaffolding collapsed. The laborers were working on the facade of the building at the 12th floor when falling debris disabled the scaffold's control system, dumping them overboard and leaving them hanging from safety cables for over an hour.
Workers Hanging from Highrise (photo: terra.com.br)
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)
BLUMENAU, Santa Catarina – The organizers of the 28th Annual Blumenau Oktoberfest expect to receive over 170,000 more visitors by Sunday, when the 11-day festival ends, bringing this year's attendance to 550,000.
BLUMENAU, Brazil – The 28th Annual Oktoberfest is set to begin tomorrow in Blumenau, Santa Catarina and is expected to draw 600,000 people from all over the world for 18 days of celebration.
BLUMENAU, Brazil – The pavilions where this famous Oktoberfest is scheduled to begin early next month were affected by flooding in the Vale do Itajai. Also affected were almost one million people the the State of Santa Catarina.
Blumenau Floods (photo: terra.com.br)
BLUMENAU, Brazil – The rain that has slammed the state of Santa Catarina in recent days, has affected 819,338 people in 86 cities, according to a report released this morning by the state Civil Defense.
BLUMENAU, Brazil – Civil Defense Authorities in Santa Catarina have extended the State of Emergency, declared on Thursday, to 10 municipalities in the southern state, reports O Globo online.
BLUMENAU, Brazil - The heavy rain punishing the state of Santa Catarina since Wednesday afternoon has caused several landslides and the Itajai-Acu river has risen to beyond flood level leaving the city, located 120 km from the capital, Florianopolis, in a state of emergency, reported terra.com.br on Thursday.
| BLUMENAU, Brazil – Heavy rains and flooding have put this city, in the southern state of Santa Catarina, on alert. According to State Civil Defense, two landslides were reported on Wednesday in the city, reported terra.com.
