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European explorers named Venezuela ("Little Venice") after observing local indigenous houses on stilts over water. During the first quarter-century of contact, the Europeans limited themselves to slave hunting and pearlfishing on the northeastern coast; the first permanent Spanish settlement in Venezuela, Cumaná , was not made until 1523.
Venezuelan people of Scandinavian descent (2 C, 1 P) ... Pages in category "Venezuelan people of European descent" This category contains only the following page.
Category: European people of Venezuelan descent. 2 languages. ... Spanish people of Venezuelan descent (1 C, 10 P) Swedish people of Venezuelan descent (4 P)
Though the 2011 Venezuelan Census states that "White" in Venezuela is used to describe the Venezuelans of European origin. [309] According to the 2011 National Population and Housing Census, 43.6% of the population identified themselves as white people. [8] A genomic study shows that about 60.6% of the Venezuelan gene pool has European origin ...
Venezuelan people of European descent (30 C, 1 P) C. European-Venezuelan culture (1 C, 5 P) I. Italian diaspora in Venezuela (1 C, 2 P) S. Spanish diaspora in ...
Italian Venezuelans (Italian: italo-venezuelani; Spanish: ítalo-venezolanos) are Venezuelan-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Venezuela during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Venezuela. Italians were among the largest groups of European immigrants to ...
The trend continued until 1948, primarily favoring Venezuela. Although large-scale immigration persisted until the early 1980s, there was a notable decline in the 1970s, coinciding with the onset of Canarian emigration to various European countries. Presently, descendants of Canary Islanders are dispersed across Venezuela.. [3]
Venezuela is a diverse and multilingual country, home to a melting pot of people of distinct origins, as a result, many Venezuelans do not regard their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship or allegiance. Venezuela as Argentina and Brazil, received most immigrants, during 1820s to 1930s Venezuela received a major wave of 2.1 million ...