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</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Spanish Chileans <br><small><i>Hispano-chileno</i></small></caption><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Total population</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">25,624<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <b>Spanish citizens</b>
Vast majority of Chileans have at least partial Spanish ancestry (from colonial times)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Regions with significant populations</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">All over <a href="Chile" title="Chile">Chile</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Languages</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="Chilean_Spanish" title="Chilean Spanish">Chilean Spanish</a>, <a href="Peninsular_Spanish" title="Peninsular Spanish">Peninsular Spanish</a>, <a href="Galician_language" title="Galician language">Galician</a>, <a href="Catalan_language" title="Catalan language">Catalan</a>, <a href="Basque_language" title="Basque language">Basque</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Religion</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Mainly <a href="Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholicism</a>,<br> <a href="Evangelicalism" title="Evangelicalism">Evangelicalism</a> and <a href="Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestantism</a> minorities</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Related ethnic groups</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="Chilean_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Chilean people">Chilean people</a>, <a href="Spaniards" title="Spaniards">Spaniards</a>, and other <a href="Latin_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin American">Latin American</a> peoples </td></tr></tbody></table>
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</style><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile"><tbody><tr><td class="sidebar-pretitle" style="padding-top:0.4em;">Part of a series on the</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle" style="font-size:175%; line-height:1.0em; padding-bottom:0.4em;"><span class="nobold"><a href="Spaniards" title="Spaniards">Spanish people</a></span></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image" style="border:none; padding:0.6em 0.4em;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"></span><br><i><a href="Flag_of_Spain" title="Flag of Spain">Rojigualda</a></i> (historical Spanish flag)</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em 0; border-top:1px solid #aaa; background:#ddddff;">
<a href="National_and_regional_identity_in_Spain" title="National and regional identity in Spain">Regional groups</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist" style="padding:0 0.4em 0.6em; border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;">
<ul><li><a href="Andalusians" title="Andalusians">Andalusians</a></li>
<li><a href="Aragonese_people" title="Aragonese people">Aragonese</a></li>
<li><a href="Asturians" title="Asturians">Asturians</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(including <i><a href="Vaqueiros_de_alzada" title="Vaqueiros de alzada">Vaqueiros de Alzada</a></i>)</span></li>
<li><a href="Balearic_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Balearic people">Balearics</a></li>
<li><a href="Basques" title="Basques">Basques</a></li>
<li><a href="Canary_Islanders" title="Canary Islanders">Canary Islanders</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(incl. <i><a href="Isle%C3%B1o" class="mw-redirect" title="Isleño">Isleños</a></i>)</span></li>
<li><a href="Cantabrian_people" title="Cantabrian people">Cantabrians</a></li>
<li><a href="Castilian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Castilian people">Castilians</a></li>
<li><a href="Catalan_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Catalan people">Catalans</a></li>
<li><i><a href="Criollo_people" title="Criollo people">Criollos</a></i></li>
<li><a href="Extremadurans" title="Extremadurans">Extremadurans</a></li>
<li><a href="Galician_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Galician people">Galicians</a></li>
<li><a href="Leonese_people" title="Leonese people">Leonese</a></li>
<li><a href="Valencian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Valencian people">Valencians</a></li></ul>
<hr> <b>Other groups</b>
<ul><li><a href="Berbers" title="Berbers">Berbers</a></li>
<li><a href="Erromintxela_language" title="Erromintxela language">Erromintxela</a></li>
<li><a href="Gitanos" title="Gitanos">Gitanos</a></li>
<li><a href="Mercheros" class="mw-redirect" title="Mercheros">Mercheros</a></li>
<li><a href="Maghrebis" title="Maghrebis">Maghrebis</a></li>
<li><a href="Occitans" title="Occitans">Occitans</a></li>
<li><a href="Sephardic_Jews" title="Sephardic Jews">Sephardim</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(including <a href="Spanish_and_Portuguese_Jews" title="Spanish and Portuguese Jews">Iberian Jews</a> and <a href="Xueta" title="Xueta">Xuetes</a>)</span></li></ul></td>
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Significant <a href="Spanish_diaspora" title="Spanish diaspora">Spanish diaspora</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist" style="padding:0 0.4em 0.6em; border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;">
<ul><li><a href="Demographics_of_Andorra#Ethnic_groups" title="Demographics of Andorra">Andorra</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_Argentines" title="Spanish Argentines">Argentina</a></li>
<li><a href="Demographics_of_Belgium#Ethnic_groups" title="Demographics of Belgium">Belgium</a></li>
<li><a href="White_Bolivians" title="White Bolivians">Bolivia</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_Brazilians" title="Spanish Brazilians">Brazil</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_Colombians" title="Spanish Colombians">Colombia</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_immigration_to_Cuba" title="Spanish immigration to Cuba">Cuba</a></li>
<li><a href="White_Dominicans" title="White Dominicans">Dominican Republic</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_immigration_to_France" title="Spanish immigration to France">France</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_immigration_to_Germany" title="Spanish immigration to Germany">Germany</a></li>
<li><a href="Demographics_of_Italy#Genetics_and_ethnic_groups" title="Demographics of Italy">Italy</a></li>
<li><a href="Spaniards_in_Mexico" title="Spaniards in Mexico">Mexico</a></li>
<li><a href="Demography_of_the_Netherlands" class="mw-redirect" title="Demography of the Netherlands">Netherlands</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_immigration_to_Peru" title="Spanish immigration to Peru">Peru</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_Filipino" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish Filipino">Philippines</a></li>
<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="Spanish_settlement_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Spanish settlement of Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a></span></li>
<li><a href="Spaniards_in_Sweden" title="Spaniards in Sweden">Sweden</a></li>
<li><a href="Demographics_of_Switzerland#Nationality" title="Demographics of Switzerland">Switzerland</a></li>
<li><a href="Spaniards_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Spaniards in the United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_Americans" title="Spanish Americans">United States</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_Uruguayans" title="Spanish Uruguayans">Uruguay</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_immigration_to_Venezuela" title="Spanish immigration to Venezuela">Venezuela</a></li></ul></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em 0; border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="Languages_of_Spain" title="Languages of Spain">Languages</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content">
<ul><li><a href="Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(AKA <a href="Names_given_to_the_Spanish_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Names given to the Spanish language">Castilian</a>)</span></li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="Basque_language" title="Basque language">Basque</a></li>
<li><a href="Catalan_language" title="Catalan language">Catalan</a></li>
<li><a href="Galician_language" title="Galician language">Galician</a></li></ul>
<hr><b>Other languages</b>
<ul><li><a href="Aragonese_language" title="Aragonese language">Aragonese</a></li>
<li><a href="Astur-Leonese" class="mw-redirect" title="Astur-Leonese">Astur-Leonese</a></li>
<li><a href="Cal%C3%B3_language" title="Caló language">Caló</a></li>
<li><a href="Catalan_Sign_Language" title="Catalan Sign Language">Catalan Sign</a></li>
<li><a href="Erromintxela" class="mw-redirect" title="Erromintxela">Erromintxela</a></li>
<li><a href="Extremaduran_language" title="Extremaduran language">Extremaduran</a></li>
<li><a href="Fala_language" title="Fala language">Fala</a></li>
<li><a href="Judaeo-Spanish" title="Judaeo-Spanish">Judaeo-Spanish</a></li>
<li><a href="Occitan_language" title="Occitan language">Occitan</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(AKA <a href="Aranese_dialect" title="Aranese dialect">Aranese</a>)</span></li>
<li><a href="Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_Sign_Language" title="Spanish Sign Language">Spanish Sign</a></li>
<li><a href="Valencian_Sign_Language" title="Valencian Sign Language">Valencian Sign</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<p><b>Spanish Chileans</b> refer more often to <a href="Chilean_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Chilean people">Chileans</a> of post-independence <a href="Spanish_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish people">Spanish</a> immigrant descent, as they have retained a Spanish cultural identity. People of pre-independence Spanish descent are typically not classified as Spanish Chileans even though they form a large majority of the Chilean population and have Spanish surnames and ancestry. This is because they rejected Spanish identity for the emergent Chilean one on the eve of national independence.
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<p>The earliest <a href="Emigration_from_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Emigration from Europe">European immigrants</a> were Spanish colonisers who arrived in the 16th century. They came to form the majority of the population by the time of <a href="Chilean_independence" class="mw-redirect" title="Chilean independence">Chilean independence</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They came mainly from <a href="Castile_(historical_region)" title="Castile (historical region)">Castile</a> and <a href="Andalusia" title="Andalusia">Andalusia</a> and formed the majority population. The <a href="Amerindian" class="mw-redirect" title="Amerindian">Amerindian</a> population of central Chile was absorbed into the Spanish settler population in the beginning of the colonial period to form the large <a href="Mestizo" title="Mestizo">mestizo</a> population that exists in Chile today; mestizos create modern middle and lower classes. In the 18th and 19th centuries, many <a href="Basques" title="Basques">Basques</a> from both <a href="Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> and <a href="France" title="France">France</a> came to <a href="Chile" title="Chile">Chile</a> where they integrated into the existing elites of Castilian origin.<sup id="cite_ref-Diariovasco_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Diariovasco-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-deia.com_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-deia.com-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other <a href="Europe" title="Europe">European</a> nationalities then followed and also became rich and fused with each other and the Basque-Castilian elite to create modern middle and upper classes. At the beginning of the Guano era in 1840s, one of Peru's most prosperous time periods, immigration from Spain greatly increased and the economy was booming and standard of living was high. This era ended in 1866 with the <a href="Chincha_Islands_War" title="Chincha Islands War">Chincha Islands War</a> wherein anti-Spanish sentiments in Peru also arose in Chile and in which Peru emerged victorious. In 1903, a fleet of 88 <a href="Canarians" class="mw-redirect" title="Canarians">Canarian</a> families—400 persons—arrived in <a href="Budi_Lake" title="Budi Lake">Budi Lake</a>, that currently have more than 1,000 descendants, as a response to the government's call to populate this region and signed contracts for the benefit of a private company. While many <a href="Isle%C3%B1o" class="mw-redirect" title="Isleño">Canarians</a> obeyed their servitude, some of those who disobeyed the provisions of repopulation tried to escape their servitude and were arrested, and the indigenous <a href="Mapuche" title="Mapuche">Mapuche</a> people took pity on the plight of these Canarians who were established on their former lands. The Mapuches welcomed them and joined their demonstrations in the so-called "revolt of the Canarians", and many Canarians integrated into Mapuche population to add the large mestizo population that exists in Chile.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 20th century, there was an influx of refugees of the <a href="Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a> and Franco's regime.(see <a href="Winnipeg_(ship)" class="mw-redirect" title="Winnipeg (ship)">Winnipeg ship</a>) They have kept their Spanish national identity and set up Spanish clubs throughout the country. The <a href="Spanish_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish culture">Spanish culture</a> of the original settlers slowly evolved into Chilean folk culture, especially the <a href="Huaso" title="Huaso">huaso</a> one, and at the time of independence had abandoned national affiliation with Spain.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_Spanish_Chileans">Notable Spanish Chileans</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Isabel_Allende" title="Isabel Allende">Isabel Allende</a>, writer</li>
<li><a href="Alejandro_Amen%C3%A1bar" title="Alejandro Amenábar">Alejandro Amenábar</a>, <a href="Film_director" title="Film director">film director</a></li>
<li><a href="Manuel_Blanco_Encalada" title="Manuel Blanco Encalada">Manuel Blanco Encalada</a>, 1st (provisional) <a href="President_of_Chile" title="President of Chile">President of Chile</a> (1826), Vice-Admiral in the <a href="Chilean_Navy" title="Chilean Navy">Chilean Navy</a></li>
<li><a href="Mat%C3%ADas_Cousi%C3%B1o" title="Matías Cousiño">Matías Cousiño</a>, <a href="Coal" title="Coal">coal</a> <a href="Magnate" title="Magnate">magnate</a> and patriarch of the Cousiño family</li>
<li><a href="Javiera_D%C3%ADaz_de_Vald%C3%A9s" title="Javiera Díaz de Valdés">Javiera Díaz de Valdés</a>, actress</li>
<li><a href="Karen_Doggenweiler" title="Karen Doggenweiler">Karen Doggenweiler Lapuente</a>, journalist, TV hostess</li>
<li><a href="Roberto_Matta" title="Roberto Matta">Roberto Matta</a>, <a href="Abstract_expressionist" class="mw-redirect" title="Abstract expressionist">abstract expressionist</a> and <a href="Surrealist" class="mw-redirect" title="Surrealist">surrealist</a> <a href="Painting" title="Painting">painter</a></li>
<li><a href="Jorge_Montt" title="Jorge Montt">Jorge Montt</a>, 12th <a href="President_of_Chile" title="President of Chile">president of Chile</a> (1891–1896), vice-admiral of the Chilean navy</li>
<li><a href="Carlos_Pezoa_V%C3%A9liz" title="Carlos Pezoa Véliz">Carlos Pezoa Véliz</a>, writer</li>
<li><a href="Jos%C3%A9_Pi%C3%B1era" title="José Piñera">José Piñera</a>, businessman and politician</li>
<li><a href="Sebasti%C3%A1n_Pi%C3%B1era" title="Sebastián Piñera">Sebastián Piñera</a>, businessman and President of Chile (2010-2014 and 2018-2022)</li>
<li><a href="Arturo_Prat" title="Arturo Prat">Arturo Prat</a>, Navy officer and national hero</li>
<li><a href="Carlos_Prats" title="Carlos Prats">Carlos Prats</a>, Former Army Commander in Chief</li>
<li><a href="Jos%C3%A9_Joaqu%C3%ADn_Prieto" class="mw-redirect" title="José Joaquín Prieto">José Joaquín Prieto</a>, Army General and President of Chile (1831-1841)</li>
<li><a href="Germ%C3%A1n_Riesco" title="Germán Riesco">Germán Riesco</a>, President of Chile (1901-1906)</li>
<li><a href="Carolina_Toh%C3%A1" title="Carolina Tohá">Carolina Tohá</a>, politician</li>
<li><a href="Jos%C3%A9_Toh%C3%A1" title="José Tohá">José Tohá</a>, politician</li>
<li><a href="Leonor_Varela" title="Leonor Varela">Leonor Varela</a>, actress</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_Spanish_cultural_centres_and_other_institutions_in_Chile">List of Spanish cultural centres and other institutions in Chile</h2></div>
<p>They have regional cultural centres in Santiago and other large cities.
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<ul><li>7ª. Cía. de Bomberos "Bomba España", <a href="Antofagasta" title="Antofagasta">Antofagasta</a></li>
<li>Centro Español de Antofagasta</li>
<li>Sociedad Española de Beneficencia de Antofagasta</li>
<li>Centro Español, <a href="Arica" title="Arica">Arica</a></li>
<li>Estadio Español de <a href="Chiguayante" title="Chiguayante">Chiguayante</a></li>
<li>Centro Español de <a href="Chill%C3%A1n" title="Chillán">Chillán</a></li>
<li>Hogar Español de Chillán</li>
<li>Sociedad Española de Beneficencia de Chillán</li>
<li>Centro Español de <a href="Concepci%C3%B3n%2C_Chile" title="Concepción, Chile">Concepción</a></li>
<li>Sociedad Española de Beneficencia de Concepción</li>
<li>Colectividad Española, <a href="Coquimbo" title="Coquimbo">Coquimbo</a></li>
<li>Corporación Unión Española de <a href="Coyhaique" title="Coyhaique">Coyhaique</a></li>
<li>Centro Español de <a href="Curic%C3%B3" title="Curicó">Curicó</a></li>
<li>Club Deportivo Español de Curicó</li>
<li>Estadio Español de Curicó</li>
<li>Sociedad de Damas del Pilar de Curicó</li>
<li>Sociedad Española de Beneficencia de Curicó</li>
<li>Casino Español de <a href="Iquique" title="Iquique">Iquique</a></li>
<li>Sociedad Española de Beneficencia, <a href="Iquique" title="Iquique">Iquique</a></li>
<li>Sociedad Española de Beneficencia, <a href="Las_Condes" title="Las Condes">Las Condes</a></li>
<li>Estadio Español de <a href="Linares%2C_Chile" title="Linares, Chile">Linares</a></li>
<li>Sociedad Española de Beneficencia, Linares</li>
<li>Centro Español de <a href="Los_Andes%2C_Chile" title="Los Andes, Chile">Los Andes</a></li>
<li>Sociedad Española de Beneficencia, Los Andes</li>
<li>Centro Español de <a href="Los_%C3%81ngeles%2C_B%C3%ADo_B%C3%ADo" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Ángeles, Bío Bío">Los Ángeles</a></li>
<li>Club Deportivo Español de <a href="Osorno%2C_Chile" title="Osorno, Chile">Osorno</a></li>
<li>Sociedad Española de SS.MM. de Osorno</li>
<li>Colectividad Valenciana de Chile <a href="Providencia%2C_Chile" title="Providencia, Chile">Providencia</a></li>
<li>Instituto Chileno de Cultura Hispánica, Providencia</li>
<li>Centro Español de <a href="Puerto_Montt" title="Puerto Montt">Puerto Montt</a></li>
<li>Centro Español de <a href="Puerto_Natales" title="Puerto Natales">Puerto Natales</a></li>
<li>Sociedad Española de <a href="Punta_Arenas" title="Punta Arenas">Punta Arenas</a></li>
<li>Centro Español de <a href="Rancagua" title="Rancagua">Rancagua</a></li>
<li>Corporación Club Español de Campo Reñaca-<a href="Vi%C3%B1a_del_Mar" title="Viña del Mar">Viña</a></li>
<li>Centro Cultural Español <a href="San_Antonio%2C_Chile" title="San Antonio, Chile">San Antonio</a></li>
<li>Centro Español de <a href="San_Fernando%2C_Chile" title="San Fernando, Chile">San Fernando</a></li>
<li>Sociedad Española de Beneficencia, San Fernando</li>
<li>10a. Cía. de Bomberos "Bomba España", <a href="Santiago%2C_Chile" class="mw-redirect" title="Santiago, Chile">Santiago</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.camacoes.cl/">Camara Oficial Española de Comercio de Chile</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100515150812/http://www.centronavarrodechile.org/">Centro Navarro de Chile</a>, Santiago</li>
<li>Círculo de Profesionales Hispánicos, Santiago</li>
<li>Círculo Español, Santiago</li>
<li>Colectividad Andaluza de Chile, Santiago</li>
<li>Colectividad Asturiana de Chile, Santiago</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.castillayleon.cl/">Colectividad Castellano-Leonesa de Chile</a>, Santiago</li>
<li>Colectividad Madrileña de Chile, Santiago</li>
<li>Comité de Damas de A.I.E.CH., Santiago</li>
<li>Confederación de Bombas Españolas en Chile, Santiago</li>
<li>Coolectividad Aragonesa de Chile, Santiago</li>
<li>Estadio Español de Las Condes</li>
<li>Hogar Español, Santiago</li>
<li>Lar Gallego, Santiago</li>
<li>Sociedad Benéfica La Rioja, Santiago</li>
<li>Sociedad Española de Socorros Mutuos y Beneficencia, Santiago</li>
<li><a href="Uni%C3%B3n_Espa%C3%B1ola" title="Unión Española">Unión Española</a>, Santiago</li>
<li>Agrupación Winnipeg, Santiago</li>
<li>Centre Català de Santiago de Xile, Santiago</li>
<li>Centro Vasco, Santiago</li>
<li>5a. Cía de Bomberos Bomba España de <a href="Talca" title="Talca">Talca</a></li>
<li>Centro Español de Talca</li>
<li>Club Deportivo Español de Talca</li>
<li>Escuela Especial España, Talca</li>
<li>Ropero Español de Talca</li>
<li>Sociedad Española de Beneficencia de Talca</li>
<li>4a. Cía. de Bomberos Bomba España, <a href="Temuco" title="Temuco">Temuco</a></li>
<li>Centro Español de Temuco</li>
<li>Sociedad Española de Beneficencia de Temuco</li>
<li>Centro Español de <a href="Valdivia" title="Valdivia">Valdivia</a></li>
<li>7a. Cía. de Bomberos Bomba España, <a href="Valpara%C3%ADso" title="Valparaíso">Valparaíso</a></li>
<li>Sociedad Española de Beneficencia, Valparaíso</li>
<li>Club Unión Española Valparaíso, <a href="Vi%C3%B1a_del_Mar" title="Viña del Mar">Viña del Mar</a></li>
<li>Soc. de Beneficencia Damas Españolas Viña del Mar</li></ul></div>
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<ul><li><a href="Chile%E2%80%93Spain_relations" title="Chile–Spain relations">Chile–Spain relations</a></li>
<li><a href="White_Latin_Americans" title="White Latin Americans">White Latin Americans</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="languageicon">(in Spanish)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eluniverso.com/2009/07/17/1/1360/B8019DEF2FD14423BA7F7ECAD8A8B48A.html">44.468 ciudadanos españoles viven en Chile</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090720080126/http://www.eluniverso.com/2009/07/17/1/1360/B8019DEF2FD14423BA7F7ECAD8A8B48A.html">Archived</a> 2009-07-20 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.osasun.ejgv.euskadi.net/r52-20726/es/contenidos/noticia/albis12_257_txile_08_11/es_txile/albis12_257_txile_08_11.html">Vascos en Chile.</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-Diariovasco-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Diariovasco_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.diariovasco.com/pg060724/prensa/noticias/AlDia/200607/24/DVA-ALD-003.html">Diariovasco.</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-deia.com-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-deia.com_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.deia.com/es/impresa/2008/05/22/bizkaia/ekonomia/469496.php">entrevista al Presidente de la Cámara vasca.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090511001812/http://www.deia.com/es/impresa/2008/05/22/bizkaia/ekonomia/469496.php">Archived</a> 2009-05-11 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.osasun.ejgv.euskadi.net/r52-20726/es/contenidos/noticia/albis12_257_txile_08_11/es_txile/albis12_257_txile_08_11.html">vascos</a> <i>Ainara Madariaga</i>: Autora del estudio <i>"Imaginarios vascos desde Chile La construcción de imaginarios vascos en Chile durante el siglo XX"</i>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.euskonews.com/0072zbk/gaia7204es.html">Basques au Chili.</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>"Contacto Interlingüístico e intercultural en el mundo hispano"</i>. instituto valenciano de lenguas y culturas. Universitat de València Cita: "Un 20% de la población chilena tiene su origen en el País Vasco"<i>.</i></span>
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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="languageicon">(in Spanish)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.empresariosvascos.cl/boletines/2008-11-03-BOLETIN-EMPREBASK.pdf">La población chilena con ascendencia vasca bordea entre el 15% y el 20% del total, por lo que es uno de los países con mayor presencia de emigrantes venidos de Euskadi.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100202064123/http://www.empresariosvascos.cl/boletines/2008-11-03-BOLETIN-EMPREBASK.pdf">Archived</a> 2010-02-02 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="languageicon">(in Spanish)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.euskalkultura.com/noticias/jon-erdozia-nuevo-delegado-en-chile-iniciativas-vasco-chilenas-como-emprebask-son-exportables-a-otros-paises?language_sync=1">Presencia vasca en Chile.</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.archipielagonoticias.com/component/option,com_mamblog/Itemid,37/task,show/action,view/id,10375/Itemid,37/">Archipiélago noticias. Canarios en Chile</a> (in Spanish: Canarians in Chile). Posted Luis León Barreto. Retrieved December 21, 2011, to 23:52 pm.</span>
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<li><a href="Basque_Chileans" title="Basque Chileans">Basque</a></li>
<li><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmigraci%C3%B3n_belga_en_Chile" class="extiw external" title="es:Inmigración belga en Chile">Belgian</a></li>
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<ul><li><a href="English_Chileans" title="English Chileans">English</a></li>
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<li><a href="Croatian_Chileans" title="Croatian Chileans">Croatian</a></li>
<li><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmigraci%C3%B3n_checa_en_Chile" class="extiw external" title="es:Inmigración checa en Chile">Czech</a></li>
<li><a href="Dutch_Chileans" title="Dutch Chileans">Dutch</a></li>
<li><a href="French_Chileans" title="French Chileans">French</a></li>
<li><a href="German_Chileans" title="German Chileans">German</a></li>
<li><a href="Greeks_in_Chile" title="Greeks in Chile">Greek</a></li>
<li><a href="Hungarians_in_Chile" title="Hungarians in Chile">Hungarian</a></li>
<li><a href="Irish_Chileans" title="Irish Chileans">Irish</a></li>
<li><a href="Italian_Chileans" title="Italian Chileans">Italian</a></li>
<li><a href="Polish_Chileans" title="Polish Chileans">Polish</a></li>
<li><a href="Russian_Chileans" title="Russian Chileans">Russian</a></li>
<li><a href="Swiss_Chileans" title="Swiss Chileans">Swiss</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmigraci%C3%B3n_boliviana_en_Chile" class="extiw external" title="es:Inmigración boliviana en Chile">Bolivian</a></li>
<li><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmigraci%C3%B3n_brasile%C3%B1a_en_Chile" class="extiw external" title="es:Inmigración brasileña en Chile">Brazilian</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmigraci%C3%B3n_colombiana_en_Chile" class="extiw external" title="es:Inmigración colombiana en Chile">Colombian</a></li>
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<li><a href="Koreans_in_Chile" title="Koreans in Chile">Korean</a></li>
<li><a href="Mexican_immigration_to_Chile" title="Mexican immigration to Chile">Mexican</a></li>
<li><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmigraci%C3%B3n_paraguaya_en_Chile" class="extiw external" title="es:Inmigración paraguaya en Chile">Paraguayan</a></li>
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<li><a href="Romani_diaspora#Chile" title="Romani diaspora">Romani</a></li>
<li><a href="Uruguayan_Chileans" title="Uruguayan Chileans">Uruguayan</a></li>
<li><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmigraci%C3%B3n_venezolana_en_Chile" class="extiw external" title="es:Inmigración venezolana en Chile">Venezuelan</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Spanish_immigration_to_Equatorial_Guinea" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish immigration to Equatorial Guinea">Equatorial Guinea</a></li>
<li>South Africa</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Asia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Spanish_Filipino" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish Filipino">Philippines</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Europe</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Spanish_immigration_to_France" title="Spanish immigration to France">France</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_immigration_to_Germany" title="Spanish immigration to Germany">Germany</a></li>
<li><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanjaarden_in_Nederland" class="extiw external" title="nl:Spanjaarden in Nederland">Netherlands</a></li>
<li><a href="Spaniards_in_Sweden" title="Spaniards in Sweden">Sweden</a></li>
<li><a href="Spaniards_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Spaniards in the United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">North America</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Hispanic_and_Latin_American_Belizean" title="Hispanic and Latin American Belizean">Belize</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_Canadians" title="Spanish Canadians">Canada</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_Costa_Rican" title="Spanish Costa Rican">Costa Rica</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_immigration_to_Cuba" title="Spanish immigration to Cuba">Cuba</a></li>
<li><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmigraci%C3%B3n_espa%C3%B1ola_en_la_Rep%C3%BAblica_Dominicana" class="extiw external" title="es:Inmigración española en la República Dominicana">Dominican Republic</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_Guatemalan" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish Guatemalan">Guatemala</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_migration_to_Honduras" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish migration to Honduras">Honduras</a></li>
<li><a href="Jamaicans_of_Spanish_descent" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamaicans of Spanish descent">Jamaica</a></li>
<li><a href="Spaniards_in_Mexico" title="Spaniards in Mexico">Mexico</a></li>
<li><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmigraci%C3%B3n_espa%C3%B1ola_en_Nicaragua" class="extiw external" title="es:Inmigración española en Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_immigration_to_Puerto_Rico" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish immigration to Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a></li>
<li><a href="Cocoa_panyols" title="Cocoa panyols">Trinidad and Tobago</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_Americans" title="Spanish Americans">United States</a>
<ul><li><a href="Asturian_Americans" title="Asturian Americans">Asturian</a></li>
<li><a href="Basque_Americans" title="Basque Americans">Basque</a></li>
<li><a href="Canarian_Americans" title="Canarian Americans">Canarian</a> (<a href="Isle%C3%B1os_in_Louisiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Isleños in Louisiana">in Louisiana</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Catalan_Americans" title="Catalan Americans">Catalan</a></li>
<li><a href="Galician_Americans" title="Galician Americans">Galician</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Oceania</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Spanish_Australians" title="Spanish Australians">Australia</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_New_Zealanders" title="Spanish New Zealanders">New Zealand</a></li>
<li>US areas of Oceania
<ul><li><a href="Spanish_immigration_to_Hawaii" title="Spanish immigration to Hawaii">Hawaii</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">South America</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Spanish_Argentines" title="Spanish Argentines">Argentina</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_Brazilians" title="Spanish Brazilians">Brazil</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_Chilean" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish Chilean">Chile</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_immigration_to_Colombia" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish immigration to Colombia">Colombia</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_immigration_to_Peru" title="Spanish immigration to Peru">Peru</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_Uruguayans" title="Spanish Uruguayans">Uruguay</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_immigration_to_Venezuela" title="Spanish immigration to Venezuela">Venezuela</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Conquest_of_the_Canary_Islands" title="Conquest of the Canary Islands">Conquest of the Canary Islands</a></li>
<li><a href="Isle%C3%B1o" class="mw-redirect" title="Isleño">Isleño</a></li>
<li><a href="Spanish_Republican_exiles" title="Spanish Republican exiles">Republican exiles</a></li></ul>
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