Back Испанцы на Филиппинах Russian Іспанські Філіппінці Ukrainian

Spanish Filipinos

Spanish Filipinos
Hispano Filipinos
Total population
History
Spanish colonial statistics:
5% of the Philippine population during the 1700s.[1][2]

Present
2007-2024 statistics:
672,319 Hispanic Filipino diaspora[3][4] worldwide.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Regions with significant populations
Diaspora
 Spain200,000[12] (2018 census)
 Mexico200,000[9] (2007)
 Australia128,693[13] (2021 census)
 United States0.4%[14] (2021 census)
 Puerto Rico91,620[15] (2014 census)
 Canada41,575[16] (2021 census)
Latin America5,479[17][18] (2024 census)
 Philippines4,952[19] (2020 census)
Languages
Spanish (Philippine • Castilian)
Spanish creole (Chavacano)
English (Philippine)
Filipino (Tagalog • Indigenous Philippine languages)
Religion
Christianity • Roman Catholic
Related ethnic groups
Spanish diaspora • Latin Americans • other Filipinos (including Filipino Mestizos)
Spanish diaspora
Flag of the Hispanic people
Regions with significant populations
Metro Manila, Bais City, Dumaguete City, Zamboanga City, Cebu City, Vigan, Iloilo City, Bauang
Languages
Spanish (Philippine), Filipino, other Philippine languages, English and Chavacano
Religion
Roman Catholic
Part of a series on the
Spanish people

Rojigualda (historical Spanish flag)
Regional groups
Other groups
Significant Spanish diaspora
Languages
Other languages
Category • flag Spain portal

Spanish Filipino or Hispanic Filipino (Spanish: Español Filipino, Hispano Filipino, Tagalog: Kastílang Pilipino, Cebuano: Katsílà) are people of Spanish and Filipino heritage. The term may also include Filipino mestizos of Spanish ancestry who identify with Spanish culture and may or may not speak the Spanish language.[20] According to a present-day 2007-2024 international government census data provided by different countries around the globe shows that there are around 672,319 people with mixed White Spanish and Indigenous Filipino ancestries living on different parts of the world, as well as 4,952 individuals who self-identified as ethnically Spanish[21]in the Philippines.

Forming a part of the Spanish diaspora,[20] the heritage of Spanish Filipinos may come recently from Spain, from descendants of the original Spanish settlers during the Spanish colonial period, or from Spain's colonies in Latin America (such as Mexico).

Many of their communities in Spain, Mexico, the United States, Australia, Canada, Latin America and the Philippines trace their origin to the early settlers from Europe and Southeast Asia during the Spanish colonial period and in recent overseas migration in the 1900s.

In the Philippines depending on the specific provinces, in the late 1700s to early 1800s they formed as much as 19% in the capital city of Manila at formerly named Tondo province,[1]: 539  and about 1.38% of the Ilocos region,[2]: 31  2.17% of Cebu[2]: 113  or 16.72% of Bataan[1]: 539  and other parts of the country.

The Spanish population that settled in the Philippines during the colonial period were originally referred to as "Filipinos".[22][23] Spaniards, Latin Americans and Spanish-speaking Filipinos are referred to by native Filipinos as "Kastila", a word for "Castilian" which means the region and language of Castile, or an individual of Spanish heritage. Native Filipinos in historical terms are referred to by the Spaniards as "Indio" (a word for "Indian" or Indigenous people). Filipinos of Spanish backgrounds numbered at about 4,952 people, while Mestizo Filipinos of mixed native Filipino and European ancestry made up about 5% of the Philippines' population during the 1700s.[1][2]

The abrupt decline of Spanish Filipinos as a percentage of the population is due to the events of the Philippine Revolution during the Philippine Republic in the late 1800s, as Filipinos of Spanish heritage choose to identify themselves as pure native Filipino, as part of establishing a united national identity in the country,[24] or some have relocated back to Spain, or have migrated to other countries during that period.

During and after the Philippine Revolution, the term "Filipino" included people of all nationalities and race, born in the Philippines.[25][26][27]

Today, Hispanic Filipinos are found in all social classes worldwide, from upper wealthy to lower poor disadvantage backgrounds, and from high profiled individuals to ordinary unknown people. They have long integrated into the native communities living their lives as ordinary citizens. However most of the successful individuals are present in economics and business sectors in the Philippines and a few sources estimate companies which comprise a significant portion of the Philippine economy like International Container Terminal Services Inc., Manila Water, Integrated Micro-Electronics, Inc., Ayala Land, Ynchausti y Compañia, Ayala Corporation, Aboitiz & Company, Union Bank of the Philippines, ANSCOR, Bank of the Philippine Islands, Globe Telecom, Solaire Resort & Casino, and Central Azucarera de La Carlota, to name but a few are owned by Hispanic Filipinos.[28][29][30][31][32]

  1. ^ a b c d "ESTADISMO DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS TOMO PRIMERO By Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga (Original Spanish)" (PDF). 1893. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 9, 2016. Retrieved February 3, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d ESTADISMO DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS TOMO SEGUNDO By Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga (Original Spanish)
  3. ^ "Estadística del Padrón de Españoles Residentes en el Extranjero (PERE)". INE Instituto Nacional de Estadística. January 1, 2024.
  4. ^ "ASIA & Pacific - Remittances from Filipinos abroad reach 2.9 bln USD in August 2019". www.xinhuanews.com. October 15, 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-10-15.
  5. ^ "Economic diplomacy is as important as QFW diplomacy". BusinessWorld. June 24, 2018.
  6. ^ "People in Australia who were born in Philippines". Australian Breau of Statistics (2021 Census). 2021.
  7. ^ "2021 Selected Population Profile in the United States". United States Census Breau.
  8. ^ "Distribution of Filipinos Overseas (Statistics on Filipino Overseas)". The Republic of the Philippines (Department of Foreign Affairs). 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-11-26.
  9. ^ a b "Filipinos in Mexican History". The Manila Bulletin Online. October 15, 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-10-15.
  10. ^ "Insights on the Hispanic/Spanish speaking or Descent Population in Canada - based on 2021 Census" (PDF). Statistics Canada. October 25, 2023.
  11. ^ "An Admixture Approach to Trihybrid Ancestry Variation in the Philippines with Implications for Forensic Anthropology". ResearchGate. August 2018.
  12. ^ "Economic diplomacy is as important as OFW diplomacy". BusinessWorld. June 24, 2018.
  13. ^ "People in Australia who were born in Philippines". Australian Breau of Statistics 2021 Census. 2021.
  14. ^ "2021 Selected Population Profile in the United States". United States Census Breau. 2021.
  15. ^ "Distribution of Filipinos Overseas (Statistics on Filipinos Overseas)". The Republic of the Philippines (Department of Foreign Affairs). 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-11-26.
  16. ^ "Insights on the Hispanic/Spanish speaking or Descent Population in Canada - based on 2021 Census" (PDF). Statistics Canada. October 25, 2023.
  17. ^ "Statistics: Commission on Overseas Filipinos". Office of the President of the Philippines. November 1, 2024.
  18. ^ "Asian Diasporas to Latin America and the Caribbean" (PDF). lasaweb.org. November 1, 2024.
  19. ^ "Ethnicity in the Philippines (2020 census of Population and Housing)". psa.gov.ph. Table 5. Archived from the original on July 20, 2023. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
  20. ^ a b "Spanish Influenced on Language, Culture, and Philippine History". Lycos.com. 2024.
  21. ^ "Top Ten Foreign Ethnicities in the Philippines: 2020". psa.gov.ph. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  22. ^ "The origin of Filipino". Munting Nayon: News and Views of the Filipino Community Worldwide. December 13, 2013.
  23. ^ "The First Filipinos were Spaniards?". www.pinoywit.com. October 7, 2013.
  24. ^ Doeppers, Daniel F. (1994). "Tracing the Decline of the Mestizo Categories in Philippine Life in the Late 19th Century". Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society. 22 (2): 82. JSTOR 29792149.
  25. ^ Hedman, Eva-Lotta; Sidel, John (2005). Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century: Colonial Legacies, Post-Colonial Trajectories. Routledge. p. 71. ISBN 978-1-134-75421-2. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  26. ^ Steinberg, David Joel (2018). "Chapter – 3 A SINGULAR AND A PLURAL FOLK". THE PHILIPPINES A Singular and a Plural Place. Routledge. p. 47. doi:10.4324/9780429494383. ISBN 978-0-8133-3755-5. The cultural identity of the mestizos was challenged as they became increasingly aware that they were true members of neither the Indio nor the Chinese community. Increasingly powerful but adrift, they linked with the Spanish mestizos, who were also being challenged because after the Latin American revolutions broke the Spanish Empire, many of the settlers from the New World, Caucasian Creoles born in Mexico or Peru, became suspect in the eyes of the Iberian Spanish. The Spanish Empire had lost its universality.
  27. ^ Doeppers, Daniel F. (1994). "Tracing the Decline of the Mestizo Categories in Philippine Life in the Late 19th Century". Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society. 22 (2): 80–89. ISSN 0115-0243. JSTOR 29792149.
  28. ^ "The Basques's contribution to the Philippines". Archived from the original on January 22, 2018. Retrieved May 12, 2016.
  29. ^ "Ayala Group". Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved May 12, 2016.
  30. ^ "Aboitiz and Company - About Us". Archived from the original on August 12, 2022. Retrieved May 12, 2016.
  31. ^ "ICTSI - BOD - Enrique K. Razon Jr". Archived from the original on September 26, 2018. Retrieved May 12, 2016.
  32. ^ "ANSCOR - History". Archived from the original on August 17, 2022. Retrieved May 12, 2016.

Rich TVX News Network Site

Rich TVX News Network Info

© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search