Indian Chilean

Infobox Ethnic group
group = flagicon|India Indian Chilean flagicon|Chile
"Chileno originario de la India" or "Chileno hindú"


caption =
poptime = Tiny minority
popplace = Iquique, Santiago, Punta Arenas
langs = Chilean Spanish, Hindi
rels = Roman Catholicism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism
related = Indian, Anglo-Indian people

Indian Chilean is a Chilean born in India or of Indian descent.

There are around 650 Indians in Chile. They are mainly business men and are recent immigrants. However, some Indians arrived as early as the 1920s and another period in 1974 to 1989. The main residence of Indian-Chileans is in Santiago.

Also note that Indian is literally "indio" in Spanish but the term "hindú" is often used, not for the religion, which is "hinduista", as "indio" is a derogatory word for an Amerindian person in most Latin American Spanish dialects.

Most Indian-Chileans are Catholic Christians with large Hinduist, Muslim and Buddhist minorities, while the majority speak Spanish and in addition to English, Hindi and other Indian languages.

Prominent Indian Chileans