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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. [4]
The historic amalgam of different principal groups form the basis of the current demographics of Venezuela: the European immigrants, the Amerindian peoples, African, and other recent immigrants. Many of the indigenous peoples were absorbed by the mixed population, but the remaining 500,000 currently represent more than 85 different cultures.
Though the 2011 Venezuelan Census states that "White" in Venezuela is used to describe the Venezuelans of European origin. [307] 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 ...
Venezuela is a country in South America. The Venezuelan people comprise a combination of heritages, primarily Native American and European. The historically present Native American, Spanish colonists, and African slaves have all contributed to varying degrees.
Venezuelan people of European-Jewish descent (6 C) Venezuelan people of Scandinavian descent (2 C, 1 P) Venezuelan people of Yugoslav descent (1 C, 1 P) A.
Creating fresh doubts about the fairness and transparency of coming elections in Venezuela, the Nicolás Maduro regime this week decided to bar 100 observers from the European Union from ...
Initially created for Venezuelans, the program will allow up to 30,000 nationals from the four countries to enter the United States each month to live and work for up to two years. The process is ...
European-Venezuelan culture (1 C, 5 P) I. Italian diaspora in Venezuela (1 C, 2 P) S. Spanish diaspora in Venezuela (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "European diaspora in ...