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Hispano Peruano | |
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| 12,000,000, including mix with other ancestries 18,800,000 (62.6% of population) | |
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| Nearly all over the coastal areas and amongst other places. | |
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| Peruvian Spanish,Andalusian | |
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| PredominantlyRoman Catholicism | |
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| Spaniards,Spanish diaspora |
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ASpanish Peruvian is aPeruvian citizen ofSpanish descent. AmongEuropean Peruvians, the Spanish are the largest group of immigrants to settle in the country.
The regions from which most Spanish immigrants originated wereExtremadura,Castilla y León,País Vasco,Andalucía,Galicia andCatalonia. Most of the colonial immigrants, in consequence, went from the southern regions of Spain to what now is considered the coastal Peruvian region.[1] These immigrants generally departed from the ports ofCádiz andSeville and arrived in the ports ofCallao,Mollendo andPimentel. Many of these immigrants made a stopover in a Caribbean port before arriving in Peru. Before the development of thePanama Canal ships were forced to go aroundCape Horn to reach Peruvian ports. Although not many, a few travelers made their way from Europe to Peru via theAmazon River. These immigrants would seek passage on the many commercial ships going to retrieve rubber in Peru to bring back to Europe. These immigrants would arrive at the river port ofIquitos. Almost all of them stayed there. These immigrants numbered no more than a few thousand.
There are also a group of Hebrew origin (Sephardim), although most emigrated in the Colonial era. The Sephardim who emigrated to different countries to late nineteenth and twentieth centuries were mainly fromNorth Africa,Anatolia and theBalkans, and not necessarily from Spain or Portugal.[2] As a result ofAlhambra Decree and theconversions due to the Inquisition in Spain, Portugal and its respective colonies since the late fifteenth century until early nineteenth, mostly emigrated toNorth Africa, regions of theOttoman Empire and to a lesser extent Italy, although also tothe Netherlands,England and its colonies. However, many also migrated to theSpanish orPortuguese colonies in the Americas in Colonial times, most of themmarranos.[3] Their descendants are mixed people with local population and professChristianity, especiallyCatholicism.
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