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cubanos filipinos (Spanish) | |
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| Havana · Santa Clara • Matanzas • Santiago de Cuba • Guantanamo Bay (mostly military and their families) | |
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| Roman Catholicism | |
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| Overseas Filipinos |
Filipino Cubans areCubans ofFilipino ancestry. Filipinos have been settling in Cuba since the 16th century and they are one of the earliest Asian communities in the country.
Filipinos and other Asian workers reached Cuba by sailing in theManila-Acapulco galleons that crossed the Pacific Ocean regularly from the late 16th century until 1815.[1]Manila was the jump-off point for all Spanish trade coming fromEast Asia, whileHavana was the take-off point for Spanish trading ships sailing fromLatin America toSpain. Most of the Asians who landed in Cuba went on to work in "Nueva Filipinas" (New Philippines) which is nowPinar del Río.
Most Filipinos who were brought by the Spaniards to Cuba worked in the tobacco plantations while there were others who were altar boys, catechism leaders, and church workers.[2][3] Pinar del Río is famous for their cigars, which were brought over from thePhilippines by the Spanish because it was much closer to Europe and easier to oversee. Afterwards, some Filipinos moved to Havana's big Barrio Chino orChinatown.[4] Others jumped ship toLouisiana. Others also sailed back to Sinaloa and Jalisco in Mexico. Those with money went toSpain or back to Manila (and brought with them the "Escabeche a la Cubana" which is a favorite dish to all Filipinos which they almost always serve using fish). The rest intermarried with the Cuban population.
Over time, the Filipinos who stayed quickly lost their ties to the Philippines since many among the Filipinos were like the local Cubans. They can speak Spanish, they were Catholic, they have to pay taxes or tributos, and they were treated like slaves by their Spanish masters. Nonetheless, their children survive to this day. Filipino Cubans were generally called “Chinos Manila," as Manila was very famous among the Cuban population at that time.
Important Filipino Cubans include the Azcárraga Fessner family, whose patriarch wasMarcelo de Azcarraga y Palmero, the first Prime Minister of Spain to be of Filipino descent, whose mother was a Filipina from the Lizárraga and Palmero-Verzosa families.
There are Filipinos and American people of Filipino descent onGuantanamo Naval Base in eastern Cuba.
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