Spanish Chileans
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Spanish Chileans refer more often to Chileans of post-independence Spanish immigrant descent, as they have retained a Spanish cultural identity. People of pre-independence Spanish descent are usually not considered Spanish Chileans even though they form a large majority of the Chilean population and have Spanish surnames and ancestry. This is because they rejected Spanish identity for the emergent Chilean one on the eve of national independence.
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Total population | |
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25,624[1] Spanish citizens Vast majority of Chileans have at least partial Spanish ancestry (from colonial times) | |
Regions with significant populations | |
All over Chile | |
Languages | |
Chilean Spanish, Peninsular Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Basque | |
Religion | |
Mainly Roman Catholicism, Evangelicalism and Protestantism minorities | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Chilean people, Spaniards, and other Latin American peoples |
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