Total population | |
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(about 100,000) | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Mainly Southeastern Brazil Center-Western Brazil · border regions and some metropolises along Northern Brazil |
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Languages | |
Spanish · Portuguese Minority: Guaraní · Aymará · possibly other Amerindian languages as Quechua |
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Religion | |
Mostly Roman Catholicism [Folk religion]]s. |
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Related ethnic groups | |
Bolivians other Brazilian, Hispanic and Hispanophone people |
Bolivians in Brazil are individuals of full, partial, or predominantly Bolivian ancestry, or a Bolivian-born person residing in Brazil. The governments of Bolivia and Brazil have begun to develop an agreement to regularize the situation of several thousand undocumented Bolivian immigrants in Brazil. According to estimates by the Ministry's of Latin American immigrants and the National Association of Immigrants from Brazil more than 200,000 Bolivians are working illegally in São Paulo.
Bolivians living in Brazil are the fifth largest immigrant group, behind only of the Americans, Japanese, Paraguayans, and the Portuguese.