Chilean Argentines

Chilean Argentines
Chileno-argentinos (Spanish)
Argentina Chile
People born in Chile by province according to RENAPER in 2023
(Not including descendants of Chileans)
Total population
209,449 (by birth, 2023)[1]
439,582 (by ancestry, 2018)[2]
1.0% of the Argentine population
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Religion
Related ethnic groups
Chileans
Chilean Americans · Chilean Brazilians

Chilean Argentines are Argentine citizens of Chilean descent or Chile-born people who reside in Argentina. Argentina is home to the largest Chilean diaspora group. According to the Argentine 2010 census, there are 191.147 Chileans living in the country (born in Chilean territory). An estimate 2003-2004 estimated Chilean descendants, born in Argentina to a Chilean father or mother, in 190,000.[3]

Other figures, such as those by The World Factbook, show a total population (including those born in Chile and their descendants) of 429,708 people.[4]

Chilean immigration to Argentina dates back to colonial times. During the War of Independence of Chile, the period known as the Patria Vieja, ended with the defeat of the patriot forces at the Battle of Rancagua on October 1 and 2, 1814. The patriots who were crossing the Andes took refuge in the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. Some of them returned to their country with the Army of the Andes in 1817 achieving restore the independence of Chile.

The countries share language, customs, history, and the Argentina–Chile border, one of the longest borders in the world, among other things.

  1. ^ "Datos sociodemográficos por país de nacimiento". RENAPER - Dirección Nacional de Población. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Segundo Registro de Chilenos en el Exterior" (PDF) (in Spanish). National Statistics Institute. January 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 October 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  3. ^ INDEC. "Estimación de la población chilena en Argentina" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2012-04-18.
  4. ^ Chilenos en el Exterior - Comisión Bicentenario (26 December 2005). "Más de 857 mil personas residen fuera de las fronteras de nuestro país" (in Spanish). www.gobiernodechile.cl. Archived from the original (ASP) on 21 January 2009. Retrieved 24 July 2008.