Argentines of European descent
| Total population | |
|---|---|
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29,000,000 |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Córdoba | |
| Languages | |
| Predominantly Rioplatense Spanish (Spanish · Italian · German · English · Welsh and some other languages are spoken by minorities) |
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| Religion | |
| Predominantly Christianity (Roman Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox) with Jewish · Atheist and Agnostic minorities |
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| Related ethnic groups | |
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White Brazilian · White Latin Americans · White Hispanic · White Mexican · Spaniards · Italians · Germans · French · Irish · Portuguese · Poles · Croats · Afrikaners · Boers · Europeans |
European Argentines belong to several communities which trace their origins to various migrations from Europe, and which have contributed to the country's cultural and demographic variety. They are the descendants of colonists from Spain during the colonial period prior to 1810, or in the majority of cases, of Italians, Spanish and other Europeans who arrived in the great immigration wave from the mid 19th to the mid 20th centuries, and who largely intermarried among their many nationalities during and after this wave. No recent Argentine census has included comprehensive questions on ethnicity, although numerous studies have determined that European Argentinians have been a majority in the country since 1914.
European Argentinians may live in any part of the country, though their proportion varies according to region. Due to the fact that the main entry point for European immigrants was the Port of Buenos Aires, they settled mainly in the central-eastern region known as the Pampas (the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Entre Ríos and La Pampa), Their presence in the northern region is less evident due to several reasons: it was the most densely populated region of the country (mainly by Amerindian and Mestizo people) until the immigratory wave of 1857 to 1940, and it was the area where the European newcomers settled the least. During the last decades, due to internal migration from these northern provinces, and due to immigration especially from Bolivia, Perú and Paraguay (which have Amerindian and Mestizo majorities), the percentage of European Argentines in certain areas of the Greater Buenos Aires, and the provinces of Salta and Jujuy has significantly decreased as well.
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