Croatian Argentines

Croatian Argentines
Hrvati u Argentini (Croatian)
Croata-argentinos (Spanish)
Flag of Argentina and Croatia
Celebrations of the Croatian community Buenos Aires (2011)
Total population
300,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
In Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Chaco, Mendoza and Argentine Patagonia
Languages
Argentine Spanish • Croatian
Religion
Catholicism
Related ethnic groups

Croatian Argentines are Argentine citizens of Croatian descent or Croatian-born people who reside in Argentina. Croats and their descendants settled in Buenos Aires, the homonymous province, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Chaco, and Patagonia.[2] Argentines of Croatian descent number over 300,000.[1]

  1. ^ a b Ivin, Renée (5 November 2005). "Croatas: Un reportaje a Rene Ivin la nueva Embajadora de la Rep. de Croacia" [Croatians: An interview with Rene Ivin the new Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia]. Ivo Scepanovic (Interview) (in Spanish). Slobodna Dalmacija. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007.
  2. ^ Antić, Ljubomir (1991). Hrvati u Južnoj Americi do godine 1914. Zagreb: Institut za migracije i narodnosti. ISBN 86-7075-094-5.