Immigration to Nicaragua

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First generation immigrants account for less than 1% of the population of

Mestizos
people to give Nicaragua a wide cultural mix. Immigration into Nicaragua has recently increased after a considerable drop in the decades between 1950 and 1980.

Currently and statistics

According to data from 2020, people born in Honduras represent the largest group of immigrants in Nicaragua, with 31,09% of the total, followed by people from Costa Rica and the United States.[1]

Place Country 2020
1  Honduras 13,110
2  Costa Rica 11,281
3  United States 3,775
4  El Salvador 2,557
5  Guatemala 1,843
6  Cuba 984
7  Mexico 885
8  Spain 480
9  Colombia 467
10  Panama 423
11  Germany 313
12  Argentina 281
13  Netherlands 278
14  Canada 262
15  Peru 237
16  Russia 202
17  Italy 198
18  Senegal 195
19  Venezuela 165
20  France 154
21  China 144
22  Chile 130
23  Brazil 126
24  Antigua and Barbuda 123
25  Algeria 117
26  Ecuador 115
27  Switzerland 86
27  Bahamas 86
29  Ethiopia 83
30  Ukraine 80
TOTAL 42,167

History

Early of immigration

The Nicaragua immigration began with the arrival of the first conqueror

Europeans. The Spaniards lived in towns and villages founded for them, the Indians were forced to live in so-called Indian villages. The cities founded by the Spaniards were León, Granada, and Nueva Segovia, the towns of Santa María de la Esperanza and Villa Hermosa (both close to Nueva Segovia), New Jaen (near the Great Lake), the Villa de Nuestra Señora de Rivas and the town of El Realejo founded to assist the rapid growth of the port of Possession. All the others were Indian villages such as Sutiaba, Jalteva, Sébaco, Matagalpa, Metapa, etc. In the Caribbean, from 1640 there was a growth of zambos, because to the arrival of a Portuguese slave ship who settled in the Mosquito Coast, close to the coast of Cabo Gracias a Dios in Honduras, these slaves were mixed with some natives of the region.[2]

European immigration

The first Europeans immigrants to Nicaragua began arriving in 1524 with the troops, priests and laborers who came with

Catholic populations in Italy, France, Ireland, Austria, and the Germans principalities of the south.[2] After the independence traders from England, France, Germany and Italy arrived to reside in Nicaragua and do business, but most moved to Matagalpa, mainly Germans since the construction of coffee fincas, while the Britons regained the Mosquito Coast after withdrawal in the early nineteenth century.[3]

Other countries

Chinese immigration

The first

San Juan del Norte navigating the river of the same name and then the lake of Granada, to disembark at the port of La Virgen in Rivas, moving overland to San Juan del Sur, where they took another ship to California. However, the Chinese people continued to arrive, many of them illegally by bribing officials. They focused mainly on agriculture, fishing, and retail trade. In the mid-1920s, was performed a census where it was made known that Bluefields had a population of 4,000 inhabitants, of whom five hundred were pure Chinese.[4]

References
  1. ^ "Nicaragua - Inmigrantes totales". expansion.com/ Datosmacro.com (in Spanish).
  2. ^ a b Revista Vinculado. Nicaragua: historia de inmigrantes. De dónde eran y por qué emigraron .Retrieved, 02/12/2014.
  3. ^ Eddy Kuhl Inmigración centro-europea a Matagalpa, Nicaragua Archived December 4, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Archive .Retrieved, 02/12/2014.
  4. ^ La Colonia china en Nicaragua.Friday, 25/03/2011.Retrieved, 02/12/2014.
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