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| Total population | |
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| c. 15 million 8% of the population (2008)[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Mainly Southeastern Brazil (particularly São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) | |
| Languages | |
| Iberian Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Other Spanish languages | |
| Religion | |
| Catholicism, some Protestantism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
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| Spanish people |
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Other groups
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| Significant Spanish diaspora |
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Spanish Brazilians are Brazilians of full or partial Spanish ancestry.
Spanish immigration was the third largest among immigrant groups in Brazil; about 750,000 immigrants entered Brazil from Spanish ports.[2] How many Spaniards came to Brazil before independence are unknown. Brazilian censuses do not research "ethnic origins" or ancestry, which makes it very difficult to give accurate numbers of Brazilians of Spanish descent. Brazilians of Spanish descent can be estimated as being 1.5 million people in the 6 main metropolitan areas (around 5% of their total population in 1998) [3] or 10 and 15 million in the whole country, according to Brazilian media and the Spanish government respectively.[4][1]
- ^ a b "Nota País Brasil" [Notes on the country Brazil]. Embassy of Spain in Brazil (in Portuguese). May 12, 2008. Archived from the original on April 26, 2009.
- ^ Levy, Maria Stella Ferreira (June 1974). "O papel da migração internacional na evolução da população brasileira (1872 a 1972)" [The role of international migration on the evolution of the Brazilian population (1872 to 1972)]. Revista de Saúde Pública (in Portuguese). 8 (suppl): 49–90. doi:10.1590/S0034-89101974000500003.
- ^ Schwartzman, Simon (November 1999). "Fora de foco: diversidade e identidades étnicas no Brasil" (PDF). Novos Estudos CEBRAP. 55: 83–96. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 10, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2010.
- ^ "Los diez millones de brasileños de origen español". Vientos de Brasil. Archived from the original on May 6, 2013. Retrieved March 13, 2013.