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| Throughout Uruguay | |
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| Rioplatense Spanish · Galician · Catalan · Basque | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism · Others | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Spanish Argentines |
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| Spanish people |
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| Significant Spanish diaspora |
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Spanish settlement in Uruguay, that is the arrival of Spanish emigrants in the country known today as Uruguay, took place firstly in the period before independence from Spain and again in large numbers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, resulting in a large proportion of Uruguayans are of Spanish ancestral origin.