Spaniards in Mexico
Spanish Mexicans are citizens or residents of Mexico who identify as Spanish as a result of nationality or recent ancestry. Spanish immigration to Mexico began in the early 1500s and spans to the present day. The vast majority of Mexicans have at least partial Spanish ancestry; the Northern regions of Mexico have a higher prevalence of Spanish heritage. There are three recognized large-scale Spanish immigration waves to the territory which is now Mexico: the first arrived during the colonial period, the second during the Porfiriato and the third after the Spanish Civil War.
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Fagoaga Arozqueta Basque family who migrated to Mexico City | |
| Total population | |
| 20,763 Spaniards (born in Spain)
144.553 Spanish nationals (2020)Note About 85% of Mexican population is of at least partial Spanish descent. (~100.000.000 Mexicans) | |
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| Predominantly Roman Catholicism, also Sephardic Judaism, Islam | |
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| Mestizo Mexican, other Spanish diaspora | |
^ Note: 20,763 individuals were born in Spain, 100,067 in Mexico, 3,689 in other countries and 210 were n/a. |
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The first Spanish settlement was established in February 1519 by Hernán Cortés in the Yucatan Peninsula, accompanied by about 11 ships, 500 men, 13 horses and a small number of cannons. In March 1519, Cortés formally claimed the land for the Spanish crown and by 1521 secured the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.