Spanish Mexican

Spanish Mexican

Infobox Ethnic group
group = flagicon|Spain Spanish Mexicans flagicon|Mexico
"Hispanomexicano"


caption = |poptime = Vast majority are of mixed and unmixed Spanish descent
popplace = All over Mexico
langs = Spanish
rels = Roman Catholicism
related = Spaniards

A Spanish Mexican ( _es. Hispano Mexicano or Hispanomexicano, derived from _la. "Hispania" now known as _es. "España", the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula including modern-day Portugal) is a Mexican citizen of Spanish descent or origin.

Spaniards make up the largest group of Europeans in MexicoFact|date=June 2008. Most of them arrived during the colonial period but others have since then immigrated, especially during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930'sFact|date=May 2008. There are about 9-15 million people of unmixed Spanish ancestry and 50 million more with partial ancestryFact|date=May 2008.

The first Spaniards who arrived in Mexico were soldiers and sailors from Extremadura, Andalucia and La Mancha after the conquest of AmericaFact|date=June 2008. Among the soldiers sent by the Spanish crown to the colonial territory were Muslim converts from Cordoba and GranadaFact|date=May 2008. At the end of the 16th century both common and aristocrat people were migrating to Mexico, mainly from provinces in Southern SpainFact|date=June 2008.

Most recent migrants came during the Spanish civil war. Some of the migrants returned to Spain after the civil war, but others remained in MexicoFact|date=May 2008.

Although the largest Spanish community is located in cities like Guadalajara, Mexico City, Puebla, and Veracruz, have sizable Spanish communities. Also, Northern Mexico is almost entirely inhabited by Spanish people, in some states like Chihuahua, Sonora, and Nuevo Leon, the majority of the population accounts for Spaniard due to the absence of mixing, both because of the scarcity of Indians and the size of the territoryFact|date=June 2008.

The Asturians are a very large community that lies in Mexico since colonial times to the present, with 42,000 members telling their descendantsFact|date=May 2008.

The Catalans are very numerous in Mexico. Fact|date=May 2008. According to sources from the Catalan community, approximately 12,000 is the total of which are around the country.Fact|date=May 2008.

The Basques have 8,500 membersFact|date=May 2008.

The Galicians have about 6,000 membersFact|date=May 2008.

The Canary Islands are a very small community in Mexico has 1,600 membersFact|date=May 2008.

ee also

*Immigration to Mexico


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