Spanish Australian

Infobox Ethnic group
group = Spanish Australian
"Hispano Australiano"
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poptime = 50,000 (exc. those with Spanish ancestry from Latin America and having mixed race)
75,237 (inc. those with Spanish ancestry from Latin America and having mixed race) [ [http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/free.nsf/Lookup/C41A78D7568811B9CA256E9D0077CA12/$File/20540_2001%20(corrigendum).pdf] Australian Bureau of Statistics]
popplace = Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth
langs = Australian English, Spanish. Minority speaks Catalan, Galician, and Basque.
rels = Predominantly Roman Catholicism
related = Spanish, Castilians, Asturians, Cantabrians, Aragonese, Galicians, Catalans Basques, Mediterranean race, Latin peoples, Arabs

Spanish Australians (Spanish: "Hispanos Australianos") are Australians with ancestry from European country of Spain. There are approximately 75,237 Australians of Spanish descent, most of which reside within the major cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. They also include persons of Spanish American blood (including Californios and Tejanos).

History

Identity

The term “Spanish Australian” refers to Australians with ancestry from Spain and they number at 50,000. This term usually do not apply to Australians with Spanish blood from one of the Hispanic countries of Latin America, but if they were to include them as most white Latin Americans like "white Chileans", "white Argentines", "white Peruvians", "white Mexicans", and "white Puerto Ricans" are of Spanish descent although they did not identify themselves as “Spanish” or “Spaniard”, these would include criollos, and people of mixed race with Spanish ethnicity is one of their ancestries, like mestizos, mulattos, Eurasians, and/or other racial mixtures, their number will increase to 75,237.

ignificant Regions

*Sydney (29,230)
*Melbourne (16,114)
*Brisbane (10,880)
*Perth (5,552)
*Adelaide (3,115)

ee also

*Latin Europe
*Notable Hispanics
*Spaniards
*Canarian people
*Spanish American

References