Spanish Costa Rican

Spanish-Costa Rican
*Hispano-Costarricense*
Total population
	4,726,001 (est.) (Counting a possible 75% of descendants of Spaniards, and 17% of mestizos, although 80% are of European descent)
Regions with significant populations
	All Costa Rica
Languages
	Costa Rican Spanish
Religion
	Roman Catholicism and Protestantism
Related ethnic groups
	Costa Rican people, Spanish people, White Costa Rican

Spanish Costa Rican are people from Costa Rica with Spanish ancestry from both the conquerors of the colonial period and as immigrants who arrived after independence and the Central American Federation of disunion. Historically this part of the population was called Criollo and were privileged but did not have equal rights with the Spaniards, some of them were mixed with Mestizos. Approximately 16,482 Spanish citizens living in Costa Rica for 2009.^[1]

^ Censo electoral de españoles residentes en el extranjero 2009 INE-Censo cerrado. Archived 27 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2014-12-08.

[1] Censo electoral de españoles residentes en el extranjero 2009 INE-Censo cerrado. Archived 27 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2014-12-08.

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