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Flemish people also emigrated at the end of the fifteenth century, when Flemish traders conducted intensive trade with Spain and Portugal, and from there moved to colonies in America and Africa. [28] The newly discovered Azores were populated by 2,000 Flemish people from 1460 onwards, making these volcanic islands known as the "Flemish Islands".
Flemish Spaniards are people who were born in Spain, of Flemish descent. Pages in category "Spanish people of Flemish descent" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
Dutch Argentines (Spanish: Neerlando-argentinos; Dutch: Nederlandse Argentijnen) are Argentine citizens of full or partial Dutch ancestry or people who emigrated from the Netherlands and reside in Argentina. Dutch immigration to Argentina has been one of many migration flows from Europe in that country, although it has not been as numerous as ...
In 1600, the Chilean city of Valdivia was conquered by Dutch pirate Sebastian de Cordes. [2] He left the city after a few months. Four decades later, in 1642, the VOC and the WIC sent a fleet of ships to Chile to take control of Valdivia and its Spanish gold mines. [3]
Main article: Basque people The Basque diaspora is the name given to describe people of Basque origin living outside their traditional homeland on the borders between Spain and France. Many Basques have left the Basque Country for other parts of the globe for economic and political reasons, with a substantial population in Chile and Colombia. Notably, the Basque diaspora is sometimes referred ...
Belgians have been in Brazil since colonial times. Some of the early settlers and bandeirantes from São Paulo were Belgians or had Belgian forefathers (most of them were flemings), like Cornélio de Arzam, [2] Pedro Taques (his father was a merchant from Brabant), [3] Fernão Dias Pais Leme [4] (the Leme family established itself in Portugal in the late 15th century through a merchant named ...
Main language families of South America (other than Aimaran, Mapudungun, and Quechuan, which expanded after the Spanish conquest). Indigenous languages of South America include, among several others, the Quechua languages in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru and to a lesser extent in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia; Guaraní in Paraguay and to a much lesser extent in Argentina and Bolivia; Aymara in ...
Linguistic map of Latin America. Spanish in green, Portuguese in orange, and French in blue. Spanish and Portuguese are the predominant languages of Latin America. Spanish is the official language of most of the countries on the Latin American mainland, as well as in Puerto Rico (where it is co-official with English), Cuba and the Dominican ...