Afro-Chileans

Afro-Chileans
AfroChilenos
Afro-Chilean women at Carnaval con la Fuerza del Sol in 2014.
Total population
Est. 195,809 (total)
1,529 (0.0008% African-Born population 2017)[1]
8,415 (0.05% Chilean-Born population 2013)[2]
185,865 (1% Haitian-Chilean population 2019)[3][4]
Regions with significant populations
Arica y Parinacota Region, Tarapacá Region, Santiago Metropolitan Region
Languages
Majority: Spanish (Chilean dialects, Caribbean dialects)
Minority: Haitian CreoleFrenchNiger-Congo languagesBantu languages
Religion
Majority: Roman Catholicism
Minority: ProtestanstismIslamBuddhismHaitian VodouAnimismAtheism
Related ethnic groups
Other Afro-Latin Americans

Afro-Chileans are Chilean people of African descent. They may be descendants of slaves who were brought to Chile via the trans-Atlantic slave trade, or recent migrants from other parts of Latin America, the Caribbean or Africa.[5]

  1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. "Censo de Población y Vivienda 2017" (Redatam WebServer). Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Primera Encuesta de Caracterización de la Población Afrodescendiente de laRegión de Arica y Parinacota" (PDF). ine.gob.cl (in Spanish). February 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  3. ^ Press, ed. (2020). "Estimación de personas extranjeras residentes habituales en Chile al 31 de diciembre 2019" (PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INE). p. 21. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  4. ^ Godoy, Gloria, ed. (12 May 2020). "Según estimaciones, la cantidad de personas extranjeras residentes habituales en Chile bordea los 1,5 millones al 31 de diciembre de 2019" (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INE). Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  5. ^ Newman, Mary K. | University of Oxford (1 December 2022). "The History and Historiography of Afro-Chileans in Colonial Chile". Epochmagazine. Retrieved 13 December 2022.