| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 497-5,000 Poles reside in Uruguay; 50,000–70,000 Uruguayans with Polish ancestry (%4) of Uruguay's population | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Montevideo | |
| Languages | |
| Spanish, with minority speakingPolish | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism andJudaism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Polish Argentine,Polish Brazilians,Polish Chileans,White Latin Americans |
APolish Uruguayan is aUruguayan citizen of full or partialPolish ancestry.
ThePolish arrived inUruguay at the end of the 19th century.[1] The most recent figure is from the 2011 Uruguayan census, which revealed 497 people who declared Poland as their country of birth.[2] Other sources claim around 5,000 Poles in Uruguay. Similar to neighboring countryArgentina, often, Poles came when the Germans and the Russians ruled Poland and so were known as "Germans" or "Russians".
Most Polish Uruguayans belong to theRoman Catholic Church; they have their own chapel in the Atahualpa neighbourhood. There is also a significantPolish Jewish minority.[3]
Polish Uruguayans have two important institutions: the Polish Society Marshal Joseph Pilsudsky (Spanish:Sociedad Polonesa Mariscal José Pilsudski), established in 1915, and the Uruguayan Polish Union (Spanish:Unión Polono Uruguaya), established in 1935,[1] both associated with USOPAL.[4]
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