Spanish Chileans

Spanish Chileans
Hispano-chileno
Total population
25,624[1] Spanish citizens Vast majority of Chileans have at least partial Spanish ancestry (from colonial times)
Regions with significant populations
All over Chile
Languages
Chilean Spanish, Peninsular Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Basque
Religion
Mainly Roman Catholicism,
Evangelicalism and Protestantism minorities
Related ethnic groups
Chilean people, Spaniards, and other Latin American peoples

Spanish Chileans refer more often to Chileans of post-independence Spanish immigrant descent, as they have retained a Spanish cultural identity. People of pre-independence Spanish descent are usually not considered Spanish Chileans even though they form a large majority of the Chilean population and have Spanish surnames and ancestry. This is because they rejected Spanish identity for the emergent Chilean one on the eve of national independence.


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