Campo Bom

The colonisation of the town started in 1825 with German immigrants who settled in the town centre, along what is now known as Avenida Brasil. They were mostly Protestants of Lutheran denomination. In 1829 they built the first evangelic temple in southern Brazil. The origin of the municipality's name came from the drovers who drove cattle from the Campos de Cima da Serra to São Leopoldo and Porto Alegre, passing through the town. The drovers rested in the shade of trees while the cattle grazed in the good field of the city (good field means Campo Bom). ==Geography==

Located on the lower slope of the northeast of the state, at latitude 29º40'44" S and longitude 51º03'10" W, Campo Bom is at an altitude of 29 meters above sea level. Its population in 2021 was 69,981 inhabitants. It is located 56.8 km from Porto Alegre, the state capital, via asphalt roads. Climate }} ==Economy==

Firstly, agriculture was the only economic activity. The emergence of the footwear industry, and also of brickworks, were responsible for boosting the local economy. In the 70s, boosted by the footwear industry, the city received several immigrants from other regions of the state. ==Sports==

The city's soccer team, Clube 15 de Novembro has a regional prominence, despite having closed its professional division in 2008 and again in 2013 after financial problems. The headquarters of this club resembles Germanic architecture. Currently, 15 de Novembro has departments for various sports like tennis, shooting, soccer academies, archery, handball and chess, in addition to the swimming pools department. ==Culture==

The culture of the community is deeply linked to German colonization, the taste for singing, dancing and traditions brought from the distant homeland, gave rise to the societies Concórdia (Current 15 November), the Clube Recreativo e Cultural Oriente and Sociedade e Canto Progresso The attachment to Rio Grande do Sul's traditions is also present through the rural rodeos carried out by the Gaucho Tradition Centers (in Portuguese: Centro de Tradições Gaúchas - CTG) Campo Verde, M'Bororé, Palanques da Tradição and Guapos do Itapuí. The city has a theatre and two cinemas with modern infrastructure, at the Campo Bom Integrated Education Center (in portuguese: Centro de Educação Integrada - C.E.I), where the bus station is also located. One of the movie theaters is named after the actress Bárbara Paz, who was born in Campo Bom. The majority of the city's population is made up of German and Italian descendants, but there is also a minority of Portuguese, Spanish and Polish descendants. Alongside the national language, Portuguese, the German language is considered a cultural heritage of the city, protected by IPHAN since 2008. == See also ==