Basque diaspora

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Main article:
Basque people

The Basque

Basque Country for other parts of the globe for economic and political reasons, with a substantial population in Chile and Colombia.[1][2][3]

Notably, the Basque diaspora is sometimes referred to as "the eighth province", indirectly referring to the historical seven Basque provinces.[4]

South America

Argentina

Main article: Basque Argentines
Basque Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 12 May 2016

People of Basque descent make up 10% of Argentina's population,

Basque cultural
centres in major cities. Argentine sportspeople with Basque surnames have frequently been nicknamed El Vasco.

Chile

Further information:
Basque Chilean and Castilian-Basque aristocracy

The Basques arrived in Chile in the 18th century from their homeland in northern

European ethnic groups. Population estimates of Basque-Chileans range from 30% (5,000,000) to as high as 40% (7, 700,000).[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

Republic of Chile.[14]

Colombia

Main article: Basque Colombians

Colombia was one of early focus of Basque immigration; it is estimated that at least 40% of the Coffee Axis and Antioquia's population have Basque origin (2,800,000 people).[15]

Peru

Main article: Basque Peruvian

A notable percentage of Peruvian people have at least one Basque surname, with more than 6 million or 18% of the national population.[16] They trace back their presence to colonial times.[17]

Uruguay

Main article:
Basque Uruguayan

It is estimated that up to 10% of Uruguay's population has at least one parent with a

Basque immigrants to Uruguay came from the French
side of the Basque country beginning about 1824.

Venezuela

Main article: Basque Venezuelan

The first wave of Basque immigration to Venezuela consisted of Conquerors and Missionaries, during the Colonization of Venezuela.[19] The second wave of Basque immigration started in 1939, as a result of the Spanish Civil War.[20]

North America

Canada

Main articles: Basque Canadians and Basque colonization of the Americas

Mexico

Main article:
Basque Mexican

An estimated 2% of Mexicans have some amount of Basque descent, and that community has increased in size from immigration from Spain in the early 20th century. The Spanish Civil War in the 1930s brought over tens of thousands of refugees from the Basque Country to political asylum in Mexico and Latin America.[21]

United States

Main article: Basque Americans
A Basque center in Boise, Idaho
Christmas notice partly in Basque ("Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!" in Basque), also from Boise
A Basque pelota in Flagstaff, Arizona. Constructed in 1926.

There are about 57,000 people of Basque descent living in the

Spanish or French
. It is speculated that there are many more Americans of Basque descent who still classify themselves as Spanish, French or Latin American.

The largest concentration of

Bizkaia (Vizcaya in Spanish, Biscay in English) in northern Spain.[26]

Asia

Philippines

Main article:
Spanish Filipino

Basque immigrants comprised a big part, if not most, of the Spanish expatriate population of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period.

Zubiri and the Ozámiz families.[28][29][30]

See also

References

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  3. ^ 3.500 apellidos vascos en Colombia. El Correo, 1 de junio de 2017. Consultado el 15 de junio de 2020.
  4. ^ The eighth province (in Spanish)
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  20. ^ "Se cumplen 70 años de la migración que dio origen a la actual comunidad vasca organizada de Venezuela" (in Spanish). Euskal kultura. 2009. Retrieved 25 January 2017. En las primeras horas del día 9 de Julio de 1939, el paquebote Cuba, de la Compagnie Générale Trasatlatique atracaba en el puerto venezolano de La Guaira,
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  30. ^ Benjamin Espiritu III (29 September 2010). "The Basque Culture and its Contributions to the Philippines". School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2013.

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