Basque Chilean

Basque Chilean

Infobox Ethnic group
group = flagicon|Basque Country Basque Chilean flagicon|Chile
"Chileno vasco"


caption = Notable Basque Chileans: Isabel Allende
poptime = Not known
popplace = Chile
langs = Spanish
rels = Roman Catholicism
related = Basque people, Spanish people, French people

A lot of Basques arrived in Chile in the 18th century from their homeland in northern Spain (see Basque Provinces) and parts of southwestern France, as merchants and due to their hard work and entrepeneurship rose to the top of the social scale and intermarried into the Chilean elites formed by Castilians. This union is the basis of the Chilean elite of today. Thousands of Basque refugees fleeing Spanish Civil War on 1939 also settled and have many descendants in the country and have even intermarried with mestizo population, other Spanish ethnic groups other than Castilians, and other European ethnic groups. An estimated range of Basque-Chileans from 200,000 to as high as 3 million, but the usually accepted statistic is 1 million Chileans have either Basque surnames or parentage.


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