White Paraguayans

Paraguayans of European descent
Total population
c. 1,750,000[1][2]
20% - 30% of total population
Regions with significant populations
Asunción Asunción
Ciudad del Este
Encarnación
San Bernardino
Altos
Languages
Paraguayan Spanish
German (Plautdietsch, Standard German)
Italian
Guaraní
Religion
Roman Catholicism, Anabaptism, Evangelicalism, Judaism, irreligion
Related ethnic groups
Spaniards, Italians, Germans, White Argentines, White Brazilians

White Paraguayans or European Paraguayans are Paraguayan people whose ancestry lies within the continent of Europe, most notably Spain, Italy and Germany, and to a lesser extent, Ukraine and Poland.

Paraguayan people of European ancestry mostly descend from people who arrived over the centuries from Spain and Italy. The Paraguayan population is the result of a heterogeneous mixture: mestizos, Creoles, Spanish immigrants, Italians, Germans, indigenous people of Guarani descent and indigenous people from the Pampas, etc. After the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870), in which the original Paraguayan population was practically exterminated, the country was repopulated with the help of immigrants, mainly from European and neighboring countries.[3]

European Paraguayans are an important ethnic group representing 20% to 30% of the Paraguayan population. The vast majority of the remainder of the population is mestizo (having mixed European and indigenous ancestry, most of them of Guarani descent).[4]

  1. ^ Francisco Lizcano Fernández (2005). "Composición Étnica de las Tres Áreas Culturales del Continente Americano al Comienzo del Siglo XXI" [Ethnic Composition of the Three Cultural Areas of the American Continent at the Beginning of the 21st Century]. Convergencia. Revista de Ciencias Sociales (in Spanish). 12 (38): 185–232.
  2. ^ Pastore, Carlos (1972). La lucha por la tierra en el Paraguay: Proceso histórico y legislativo. Antequera. p. 526.
  3. ^ "Brasileños, Argentinos, Coreanos y Taiwaneses, encabezan ranking de inmigrantes en Paraguay". Hoy Paraguay (hoy.com.py) (in Spanish). 2021-12-07. Archived from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
  4. ^ http://www.dgeec.gov.py/Censos/Imagenes/Cuestionario%20Censal.pdf?PHPSESSID=296abb7abfa015f8241d208aeaed71f4 [dead link‍]