| Picada Café | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Brazil |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Brazil |
| Coordinates: | -29.4542°N -51.1364°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Brazil |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Rio Grande do Sul |
| Subdivision Type2: | Mesoregion |
| Subdivision Type3: | Microregion |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Total Type: | Total |
| Population As Of: | 2020 [1] |
| Population Total: | 5,738 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Area Code Type: | Area/distance code |
| Blank Name Sec1: | IBGE code |
| Timezone: | BRT |
| Utc Offset: | -3 |
Picada Café or Kaffeeschneiss in the local German dialect (i.e. Riograndenser Hunsrückisch) is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is located around 80 kilometers from the state capital of Porto Alegre.
The local economy depends largely on small farming;[2] and increasingly on national (internal) tourism which in turn revolves around its Germanic roots and traditions, perceived as exotic.
Since its foundation in 1840s[3] and from its pioneering days onward, the Riograndenser Hunsrückisch language, a Brazilian variety of German largely based on the Rhine Franonian, has been present in this community.
There are many other municipalities with this bilingual profile throughout the state. In 2012 the state chamber of deputies voted unanimously in favor of recognizing this Germanic dialect an official historical culture good to be preserved.[4] [5]