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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.[2] 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.

Spaniards in Mexico
Españoles en México
Fagoaga Arozqueta Basque family who migrated to Mexico City
Total population
20,763 Spaniards (born in Spain) 144.553 Spanish nationals (2020)[1]Note
About 85% of Mexican population is of at least partial Spanish descent. (~100.000.000 Mexicans)
Languages
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholicism,
also Sephardic Judaism, Islam
Related ethnic groups
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.

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.[3] In March 1519, Cortés formally claimed the land for the Spanish crown and by 1521 secured the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.

Spanish colonization

 
Vasco de Quiroga, member of the second Audiencia and first Bishop of Michoacán.
 
Hernán Cortés led the Spanish occupation of Mexico.

The social composition of late sixteenth century Spanish immigration included both common people and aristocrats, all of which dispersed across New Spain. The enslavement of native populations and Africans, along with the discovery of new deposits of various minerals in the central and northern areas (from present day Sonora to the southern provinces of Mexico) created enormous wealth for Spain, especially in the extraction of silver.[citation needed] The exploitation of mining wealth from the indigenous populations through the mechanism of colonialism allowed the Spanish to develop manufacturing and agriculture that turned the Bajío regions and the valleys of Mexico and Puebla into prosperous agricultural areas with incipient industrial activity for the colonists, but indigenous populations were decimated by European diseases and mistreatment from the Spanish as a direct result of this.

In the 16th century, following the colonization of most of the new continents, perhaps 240,000 Spaniards entered ports in the Americas. They were joined by 450,000 in the next century.[4] Since the conquest of the Aztec Empire, this region became the principal destination of Spanish colonial settlers in the 16th century. The first Spaniards who arrived in Mexico were soldiers and sailors from Extremadura, Andalucía and La Mancha after the conquest of the Americas.[5][6] At the end of the 16th century both commoner and aristocrat from Spain were migrating to Mexico. Also, a few Canarian families colonized parts of Mexico in the 17th century (as in the case of the Azuaje families) and when the Spanish crown encouraged Canarian colonization of the Americas through the Tributo de sangre (Blood Tribute) in the 18th century, many of them settled in Yucatán, where by the 18th century they controlled the trade network that distributed goods throughout the peninsula; their descendants are still counted among the most influential families of direct Spanish descent in Mexico. During the 20th century, another group of Canarians settled in Mexico in the early 1930s, and as with Galician and other Spanish immigrants of the time, there were high rates of illiteracy and impoverishment among them, but they adapted relatively quickly.

History

After the independence of Mexico and centuries of brutal colonial rule, animosity emerged against Spanish people in the new nation. From August 1827 to 1834, by a decree issued during the government of Lorenzo de Zavala, many Spaniards and their families were expelled from the State of Mexico and killed. The state government, influenced by English masons or Yorkers, based on the Plan of Iguala and Treaty of Córdoba, liberated the state by stripping Spaniards of their haciendas, farms, ranches and properties.[7][8]

On December 20, 1827, state deputies repealed the Spanish expulsion law, and many Criollo families returned to their farms and ranches protected by state congressional deputies.[9] In the constitution of 1857, the ambiguities about Mexican citizens are removed, and Spaniards were recognized as foreign people.[10]

 
Tribute statue to the refugees of Spanish Civil War in Veracruz, Veracruz.
 
Numerous Spanish children were sent to Mexico by their families to escape the Spanish Civil War. President Lázaro Cárdenas is pictured with a group in the bottom left.
 
La Unió Catalanista de Mèxic, in 1953.

In the period 1850–1950, 3.5 million Spanish left for the Americas, with Mexico becoming one of the chief destinations, especially its northern region where president Porfirio Diaz encouraged European immigration in order to supply labor.[citation needed] In 1910, there were 30,000 Spaniards in Mexico, with many participating in economic activities as agricultural labor and trade in urban areas. However, because they proportionally only made up .02% of the population in Mexico at the time, they could not influence the country's political life.[10]

Most recent migrants came during the Spanish Civil War. More than 25,000 Spanish refugees settled in Mexico between 1939 and 1942, largely during the administration of President Lazaro Cardenas del Río. Some of the migrants returned to Spain after the Civil War, but many more remained in Mexico.[11]

Due to the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and the resulting economic decline and high unemployment in Spain, many Spaniards emigrated to Mexico to seek new opportunities.[12] For example, during the last quarter of 2012, 7,630 work permits were granted to Spaniards.[13]

Economic and social issues

 
Fuente de Cibeles (Avenida de los Insurgentes) in Mexico City, an exact copy of Fuente de Cibeles in Madrid, Spain's capital.

The Spanish community in Mexico includes business people, entertainers, academics, artists, and professional students. According to Milenio, Spanish companies are the largest foreign investors in Mexico.[14]

Xenophobia

 
Cartoon about Spanish Civil War refugees in Mexico City.

Hispanophobia began during the Spanish Civil War because of the influx of Spanish immigrants in the country during Lázaro Cárdenas’ presidency, which caused a change in the Mexican education system. Through an effort of nation building, the government began identifying with the Aztec civilization rather than the Spaniards. Key figures of Mexican history such as Hernán Cortés were demonized and a generally negative perspective of the Spanish conquest became official history.[citation needed]

The word gachupín is used for Spaniards who live in Mexico and Guatemala[15] as a slur, referring to conquistadors and people from Spain.[16] Official history says Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla mentioned in the Grito de Dolores; Mueran los gachupines (Death to gachupines!).[17][18]

Diego Rivera caused controversy with his mural Historia del estado de Morelos, conquista y revolución (The History of the State of Morelos, Conquest and Revolution), painted between 1929 and 1930. He was accused of Hispanophobia and his mural created a diplomatic conflict between the Mexican and Spanish governments. Upon being asked about criticisms of his mural, Rivera only replied “¡ya apareció el gachupín!” ("here's the gachupín").[19]

Education

Important Spanish schools remain in Mexico, such as Colegio Madrid of Mexico City, a scholarly institute founded in 1941 by Spanish immigrants and Mexican teachers. This is a private school for elementary education.[20]

The Colegio de México (Colmex) was an organization of Spanish Civil War exiles beginning as "Casa de España en México" (House of Spain in Mexico). In 1939, Alfonso Reyes would be president of the "Colegio" until his death. Historian Daniel Cosío Villegas played an important role in its institutionalization and the Colegio's library bears his name.

Spanish culture in Mexico

Mexico is the largest and perhaps most culturally influential country in the Hispanosphere. Its culture is overwhelmingly derived from the Spanish founders and settlers of New Spain which would eventually become the modern day Republic of Mexico.

 
Jocs florals de la llengua catalana was a Catalan publication, printed in Mexico City.
 
Charrería is a Mexican sport with Spanish origins (Santiago Tequixquiac fair).
 
Bullfighting in San Marcos festival of Aguascalientes City.
 
The estudiantina in Cervantino festival of Guanajuato City.

Languages

Spanish was brought to Mexico around 500 years ago, although Nahuatl remained the official language for much of the colonial period.[citation needed] As a result of prolonged and mass immigration, many urban centers were predominantly populated by Spaniards by the early 19th century. Mexico City (Tenochtitlán) had also been the capital of the Aztec Empire, and many speakers of the Aztec language Nahuatl continued to live there and in the surrounding region, outnumbering Spanish-speakers for several generations. Consequently, Mexico City tended historically to exercise a standardizing effect over the entire country, more or less, evolving into a distinctive dialect of Spanish which incorporated a significant number of Hispanicized Nahuatl words.

Many Catalans fleeing Francoist Spain immigrated to Mexico, where they were free to express the Catalan language. The Orfeó Català de Mèxic was a mecca for Catalan speakers and artists.[21][22]

Charreria

Charrería, a word encompassing all aspects of the art of raising horses, evolved from the traditions that came to Mexico from Salamanca, Spain in the 16th century. When the Spanish first settled in Colonial Mexico, they were under orders to raise horses named criollos (Spanish people), but not to allow the indigenous people to ride. However, by 1528 the Spanish had very large cattle-raising estates and found it necessary to employ indigenous people as vaqueros or Creole herdsman, who soon became excellent horsemen. Smaller landholders, known as rancheros or ranchers, were the first genuine charros and they are credited as the inventors of the charreada.[23]

Bullfighting

Bullfighting arrived in Mexico with the first Spaniards. Records are found of the first bullfights debuted in Mexico on June 26, 1526, with a bullfight in Mexico City held in honor of explorer Hernán Cortés, who had just come back from Honduras (then known as Las Hibueras). From that point on, bullfights were staged all over Mexico as part of various civic, social and religious celebrations. Today, there are about 220 permanent bullrings throughout Mexico with the largest venue of its kind is the Plaza de toros México in central Mexico City which opened in 1946 and seats 48,000 people.[24]

Holy week

Holy week is a Spanish tradition represented in many Mexican cities as San Luis Potosí City, Taxco de Alarcón or Morelia, this religious representation is very similar to Sevilla Holy week procession o Semana Mayor from other Spanish cities.[citation needed].

Spanish place names in Mexico

Hundreds of places in Mexico are named after places in Spain or have Spanish names due to the Spanish colonialism, Spanish settlers and explorers. These include:

Principal areas of settlement

The Asturians are a very large community that has a long history in Mexico, dating from colonial times to the present.[25] There are about 42,000 people of Asturian birth in Mexico[citation needed]. The Catalans are also very numerous in Mexico. According to sources from the Catalan community, there are approximately 12,000 Catalan-born around the country.[citation needed]. There are also as many as 8,500 Basques[citation needed], 6,000 Galicians[citation needed], and 1,600 Canary Islanders[citation needed].

The largest population of Spanish descent are located in Mexico Valley, Puebla-Veracruz region, Bajío region, Guadalajara Valley, Altos de Jalisco, Northern region and Riviera Maya, where they make up the largest proportion of the Spanish population.[citation needed] Large populations are found in the states like Mexico City, Mexico State, Veracruz, Puebla, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Aguascalientes, Durango, Guanajuato, Querétaro, and Chihuahua.[citation needed] Also, Northern Mexico is inhabited by many millions of Spanish descendants.[citation needed] Some states like Zacatecas, Sinaloa, Baja California, Sonora, San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas.

Mexico City

 
Centro Gallego de México in Mexico City.
 
Old Centro Asturiano de México in Mexico City.
 
Centro Gallego de México in Sebastián de Aparicio Romería, Puebla City.
 
Flamenco dance in ITESM Mexico City.

Mexico City has the biggest Spanish population in the country. In this city are all the Spanish institutions as Embassy of Spain, cultural centers as soon as Centro Asturiano, Centro Gallego, Casa de Madrid, Casa de Andalucía, Centro Montañes, Orfeo Catalán de Mexico, Centro Vasco, Centro Canario, Centro Republicano Español, Ateneo Español, Casino Español, Asociación Valenciana, Centro Castellano, and health institutions as the Beneficiencia Española, Hospital Español and Hospital-ito.[26]

Also in Mexico City is home to important Spanish schools and universities such as the Colegio Madrid, Universidad Iberoamericana, Colegio de México, and Universidad Anahuac.

Puebla City

Puebla City is the other major Spanish population in Mexico.[citation needed] The Parque España, a social community and school founded by Spaniards and Spanish Mexicans descendants, is found in the city.

The Centro Gallego de México makes a Beato Sebastián de Aparicio romería to Puebla City each year, this event is an interesting Galician community with Folk music and Galician dances outside the Old San Francisco convento to Downtown Puebla de Zaragoza, Puebla State.

Demographics

Spanish descendants make up the largest group of Europeans in Mexico and a majority of Mexicans have some degree of Spanish descent. Most of their ancestors arrived during the colonial period but further hundreds of thousands have since then immigrated, especially during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.[27] The Encyclopædia Britannica states those of predominantly European descent make up closer to one-sixth (≈17%) of the Mexican population.[28]

Spaniards in Mexico
Year Residents
2010 77,069 (INE)[29]
2011 86,658 (INE)[30]
2012 94.617 (INE)[31]
2013 100.782 (INE)[32]
2014 108,314 (INE)[33]
2015 115,620 (INE)[34]
2016 123,189 (INE)[35]
2017 130,832 (INE)[36]
2018 135,155 (INE)[37]
2019 140,199 (INE)[38]
2020 144,553 (INE)[39]
Spaniards living in Mexico by state
INEGI 2020
Raiking State Population
2020
Ref.
  Mexico City 2 511 [40]
  México 457 [41]
  Jalisco 451 [42]
  Querétaro 420 [43]
  Puebla 409 [44]
  Nuevo León 375 [45]
  Yucatán 238 [46]
  Guanajuato 218 [47]
  Aguascalientes 185 [48]
10°   San Luis Potosí 149 [49]
11°   Morelos 128 [50]
12°   Michoacán 123 [51]
13°   Sinaloa 110 [52]
14°   Hidalgo 107 [53]
15°   Sonora 82 [54]
16°   Oaxaca 76 [55]
17°   Baja California 75 [56]
18°   Baja California Sur 75 [57]
19°   Colima 68 [58]
20°   Durango 46 [59]
21°   Nayarit 40 [60]
22°   Zacatecas 35 [61]
23°   Tlaxcala 27 [62]
TOTAL  20 763   Mexico
Notes: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI)

Notable people

Spaniards who settled in Mexico

 
Luis Buñuel, director and film producer.
 
Sara Montiel, actress.
 
Luis Regueiro, soccer player.
 
Martí Ventolrà, soccer player.
 
Gaspar Rubio, soccer player.
 
Carlos Mouriño, businessman.
 
 
Joaquín López-Doriga, TV anchorman.
 
Paco Ignacio Taibo II, writer and politician.
 
 
Anna Ciocchetti, actress.
 
 
Lisardo, actor.
 
Belinda Peregrín, singer and actress.

See also

References

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Further reading

  • Altman, Ida. Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain, and Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620. Stanford University Press, 2000.
  • Fagen, Patricia W. Exiles and citizens: Spanish republicans in Mexico. Vol. 29. University of Texas Press, 2014.
  • Faber, Sebastiaan. Exile and cultural hegemony: Spanish intellectuals in Mexico, 1939-1975. Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.
  • Kenny, Michael. "Twentieth-century Spanish Expatriates in Mexico: an urban Sub-culture." Anthropological Quarterly 35.4 (1962): 169-180.
  • Powell, Thomas G. Mexico and the Spanish Civil War. University of New Mexico Press, 1981.
  • Rickett, Rosy. "Refugees of the Spanish Civil War and those they left behind: personal testimonies of departure, separation and return since 1936." Diss. The University of Manchester (United Kingdom), 2015.
  • Smith, Lois Elwyn. Mexico and the Spanish republicans. Vol. 4. University of California Press, 1955.

External links

  • How the Spanish Civil War Drove My Family to Mexico
  • Los que llegaron, Españoles
  • Los niños de Morelia
  • Romería del Pilar in Parque España, Puebla City.

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763 Spaniards born in Spain 144 553 Spanish nationals 2020 1 NoteAbout 85 of Mexican population is of at least partial Spanish descent 100 000 000 Mexicans LanguagesSpanish Peninsular Spanish dialects and Mexican Spanish dialects Minority speaks GalicianCatalanBasqueReligionPredominantly Roman Catholicism also Sephardic Judaism IslamRelated ethnic groupsMestizo 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 The first Spanish settlement was established in February 1519 by Hernan Cortes in the Yucatan Peninsula accompanied by about 11 ships 500 men 13 horses and a small number of cannons 3 In March 1519 Cortes formally claimed the land for the Spanish crown and by 1521 secured the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire Contents 1 Spanish colonization 2 History 3 Economic and social issues 4 Xenophobia 5 Education 6 Spanish culture in Mexico 6 1 Languages 6 2 Charreria 6 3 Bullfighting 6 4 Holy week 6 5 Spanish place names in Mexico 7 Principal areas of settlement 7 1 Mexico City 7 2 Puebla City 8 Demographics 9 Notable people 9 1 Spaniards who settled in Mexico 10 See also 11 References 12 Further reading 13 External linksSpanish colonization EditMain article Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire Vasco de Quiroga member of the second Audiencia and first Bishop of Michoacan Hernan Cortes led the Spanish occupation of Mexico The social composition of late sixteenth century Spanish immigration included both common people and aristocrats all of which dispersed across New Spain The enslavement of native populations and Africans along with the discovery of new deposits of various minerals in the central and northern areas from present day Sonora to the southern provinces of Mexico created enormous wealth for Spain especially in the extraction of silver citation needed The exploitation of mining wealth from the indigenous populations through the mechanism of colonialism allowed the Spanish to develop manufacturing and agriculture that turned the Bajio regions and the valleys of Mexico and Puebla into prosperous agricultural areas with incipient industrial activity for the colonists but indigenous populations were decimated by European diseases and mistreatment from the Spanish as a direct result of this In the 16th century following the colonization of most of the new continents perhaps 240 000 Spaniards entered ports in the Americas They were joined by 450 000 in the next century 4 Since the conquest of the Aztec Empire this region became the principal destination of Spanish colonial settlers in the 16th century The first Spaniards who arrived in Mexico were soldiers and sailors from Extremadura Andalucia and La Mancha after the conquest of the Americas 5 6 At the end of the 16th century both commoner and aristocrat from Spain were migrating to Mexico Also a few Canarian families colonized parts of Mexico in the 17th century as in the case of the Azuaje families and when the Spanish crown encouraged Canarian colonization of the Americas through the Tributo de sangre Blood Tribute in the 18th century many of them settled in Yucatan where by the 18th century they controlled the trade network that distributed goods throughout the peninsula their descendants are still counted among the most influential families of direct Spanish descent in Mexico During the 20th century another group of Canarians settled in Mexico in the early 1930s and as with Galician and other Spanish immigrants of the time there were high rates of illiteracy and impoverishment among them but they adapted relatively quickly History EditAfter the independence of Mexico and centuries of brutal colonial rule animosity emerged against Spanish people in the new nation From August 1827 to 1834 by a decree issued during the government of Lorenzo de Zavala many Spaniards and their families were expelled from the State of Mexico and killed The state government influenced by English masons or Yorkers based on the Plan of Iguala and Treaty of Cordoba liberated the state by stripping Spaniards of their haciendas farms ranches and properties 7 8 On December 20 1827 state deputies repealed the Spanish expulsion law and many Criollo families returned to their farms and ranches protected by state congressional deputies 9 In the constitution of 1857 the ambiguities about Mexican citizens are removed and Spaniards were recognized as foreign people 10 Tribute statue to the refugees of Spanish Civil War in Veracruz Veracruz Numerous Spanish children were sent to Mexico by their families to escape the Spanish Civil War President Lazaro Cardenas is pictured with a group in the bottom left La Unio Catalanista de Mexic in 1953 In the period 1850 1950 3 5 million Spanish left for the Americas with Mexico becoming one of the chief destinations especially its northern region where president Porfirio Diaz encouraged European immigration in order to supply labor citation needed In 1910 there were 30 000 Spaniards in Mexico with many participating in economic activities as agricultural labor and trade in urban areas However because they proportionally only made up 02 of the population in Mexico at the time they could not influence the country s political life 10 Most recent migrants came during the Spanish Civil War More than 25 000 Spanish refugees settled in Mexico between 1939 and 1942 largely during the administration of President Lazaro Cardenas del Rio Some of the migrants returned to Spain after the Civil War but many more remained in Mexico 11 Due to the financial crisis of 2007 2008 and the resulting economic decline and high unemployment in Spain many Spaniards emigrated to Mexico to seek new opportunities 12 For example during the last quarter of 2012 7 630 work permits were granted to Spaniards 13 Economic and social issues Edit Fuente de Cibeles Avenida de los Insurgentes in Mexico City an exact copy of Fuente de Cibeles in Madrid Spain s capital The Spanish community in Mexico includes business people entertainers academics artists and professional students According to Milenio Spanish companies are the largest foreign investors in Mexico 14 Xenophobia EditMain article Hispanophobia Cartoon about Spanish Civil War refugees in Mexico City Hispanophobia began during the Spanish Civil War because of the influx of Spanish immigrants in the country during Lazaro Cardenas presidency which caused a change in the Mexican education system Through an effort of nation building the government began identifying with the Aztec civilization rather than the Spaniards Key figures of Mexican history such as Hernan Cortes were demonized and a generally negative perspective of the Spanish conquest became official history citation needed The word gachupin is used for Spaniards who live in Mexico and Guatemala 15 as a slur referring to conquistadors and people from Spain 16 Official history says Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla mentioned in the Grito de Dolores Mueran los gachupines Death to gachupines 17 18 Diego Rivera caused controversy with his mural Historia del estado de Morelos conquista y revolucion The History of the State of Morelos Conquest and Revolution painted between 1929 and 1930 He was accused of Hispanophobia and his mural created a diplomatic conflict between the Mexican and Spanish governments Upon being asked about criticisms of his mural Rivera only replied ya aparecio el gachupin here s the gachupin 19 Education Edit The Colegio de Mexico Important Spanish schools remain in Mexico such as Colegio Madrid of Mexico City a scholarly institute founded in 1941 by Spanish immigrants and Mexican teachers This is a private school for elementary education 20 The Colegio de Mexico Colmex was an organization of Spanish Civil War exiles beginning as Casa de Espana en Mexico House of Spain in Mexico In 1939 Alfonso Reyes would be president of the Colegio until his death Historian Daniel Cosio Villegas played an important role in its institutionalization and the Colegio s library bears his name Spanish culture in Mexico EditMexico is the largest and perhaps most culturally influential country in the Hispanosphere Its culture is overwhelmingly derived from the Spanish founders and settlers of New Spain which would eventually become the modern day Republic of Mexico Jocs florals de la llengua catalana was a Catalan publication printed in Mexico City Charreria is a Mexican sport with Spanish origins Santiago Tequixquiac fair Bullfighting in San Marcos festival of Aguascalientes City Holy Week procession of San Luis Potosi City The estudiantina in Cervantino festival of Guanajuato City Languages Edit Main articles Languages of Spain Spanish accent and Mexican Spanish Spanish was brought to Mexico around 500 years ago although Nahuatl remained the official language for much of the colonial period citation needed As a result of prolonged and mass immigration many urban centers were predominantly populated by Spaniards by the early 19th century Mexico City Tenochtitlan had also been the capital of the Aztec Empire and many speakers of the Aztec language Nahuatl continued to live there and in the surrounding region outnumbering Spanish speakers for several generations Consequently Mexico City tended historically to exercise a standardizing effect over the entire country more or less evolving into a distinctive dialect of Spanish which incorporated a significant number of Hispanicized Nahuatl words Many Catalans fleeing Francoist Spain immigrated to Mexico where they were free to express the Catalan language The Orfeo Catala de Mexic was a mecca for Catalan speakers and artists 21 22 Charreria Edit Charreria a word encompassing all aspects of the art of raising horses evolved from the traditions that came to Mexico from Salamanca Spain in the 16th century When the Spanish first settled in Colonial Mexico they were under orders to raise horses named criollos Spanish people but not to allow the indigenous people to ride However by 1528 the Spanish had very large cattle raising estates and found it necessary to employ indigenous people as vaqueros or Creole herdsman who soon became excellent horsemen Smaller landholders known as rancheros or ranchers were the first genuine charros and they are credited as the inventors of the charreada 23 Bullfighting Edit Bullfighting arrived in Mexico with the first Spaniards Records are found of the first bullfights debuted in Mexico on June 26 1526 with a bullfight in Mexico City held in honor of explorer Hernan Cortes who had just come back from Honduras then known as Las Hibueras From that point on bullfights were staged all over Mexico as part of various civic social and religious celebrations Today there are about 220 permanent bullrings throughout Mexico with the largest venue of its kind is the Plaza de toros Mexico in central Mexico City which opened in 1946 and seats 48 000 people 24 Holy week Edit Holy week is a Spanish tradition represented in many Mexican cities as San Luis Potosi City Taxco de Alarcon or Morelia this religious representation is very similar to Sevilla Holy week procession o Semana Mayor from other Spanish cities citation needed Spanish place names in Mexico Edit Hundreds of places in Mexico are named after places in Spain or have Spanish names due to the Spanish colonialism Spanish settlers and explorers These include Guadalajara Jalisco after Guadalajara Spain Merida Yucatan after Merida Spain Zamora Michoacan after Zamora Spain Leon Guanajuato after Leon Spain Valladolid Yucatan after Valladolid Spain and Morelia Michoacan formerly named Valladolid de Michoacan Nuevo Leon named after the former Kingdom of Leon in Spain Monterrey city was named after the Countess of Monterrei a city in Galicia Spain wife of the Viceroy of New Spain Gaspar de Zuniga 5th Count of Monterrey Count of Monterrey Spain Salamanca Guanajuato named after Salamanca Spain Burgos Tamaulipas named after Burgos Spain Linares Nuevo Leon named after Linares Spain Jerez Zacatecas named after Jerez de la Frontera Spain Durango Durango named after Durango Spain Nuevo Laredo Tamaulipas after Laredo Cantabria Spain Cordoba Veracruz after Cordoba Spain Zaragoza Veracruz after Zaragoza Spain Zaragoza Puebla after Zaragoza Spain Medellin Veracruz after Medellin Spain Compostela Nayarit after Santiago de Compostela Villahermosa Tabasco after Villahermosa del Campo Spain Reynosa Tamaulipas La Villa de Reinosa generic changed after independence because the word says built as the king after Reinosa Cantabria Spain Madrid Colima after Madrid Spain Matamoros Tamaulipas after Valle de Matamoros Extremadura Spain Altamira Tamaulipas after Altamira Bilbao Spain Arandas Jalisco after Aranda Aragon Spain Arandas Guanajuato after Aranda Aragon Spain Guadalcazar San Luis Potosi after Guadalcazar Cordoba Spain Lerma State of Mexico after Lerma Castile and Leon Spain Lerma Campeche after Lerma Castile and Leon Spain Candelaria Campeche after Candelaria Tenerife Canary Islands Spain Granada Yucatan after Granada Andalusia Spain Cardenas Tabasco after Cardenas La Rioja SpainPrincipal areas of settlement EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Spaniards in Mexico news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message Guadalajara Jalisco Mexico founded by Nuno Beltran de Guzman is named after Guadalajara Spain The Asturians are a very large community that has a long history in Mexico dating from colonial times to the present 25 There are about 42 000 people of Asturian birth in Mexico citation needed The Catalans are also very numerous in Mexico According to sources from the Catalan community there are approximately 12 000 Catalan born around the country citation needed There are also as many as 8 500 Basques citation needed 6 000 Galicians citation needed and 1 600 Canary Islanders citation needed The largest population of Spanish descent are located in Mexico Valley Puebla Veracruz region Bajio region Guadalajara Valley Altos de Jalisco Northern region and Riviera Maya where they make up the largest proportion of the Spanish population citation needed Large populations are found in the states like Mexico City Mexico State Veracruz Puebla Jalisco Nuevo Leon Aguascalientes Durango Guanajuato Queretaro and Chihuahua citation needed Also Northern Mexico is inhabited by many millions of Spanish descendants citation needed Some states like Zacatecas Sinaloa Baja California Sonora San Luis Potosi and Tamaulipas Mexico City Edit Centro Gallego de Mexico in Mexico City Old Centro Asturiano de Mexico in Mexico City Centro Gallego de Mexico in Sebastian de Aparicio Romeria Puebla City Flamenco dance in ITESM Mexico City Mexico City has the biggest Spanish population in the country In this city are all the Spanish institutions as Embassy of Spain cultural centers as soon as Centro Asturiano Centro Gallego Casa de Madrid Casa de Andalucia Centro Montanes Orfeo Catalan de Mexico Centro Vasco Centro Canario Centro Republicano Espanol Ateneo Espanol Casino Espanol Asociacion Valenciana Centro Castellano and health institutions as the Beneficiencia Espanola Hospital Espanol and Hospital ito 26 Also in Mexico City is home to important Spanish schools and universities such as the Colegio Madrid Universidad Iberoamericana Colegio de Mexico and Universidad Anahuac Puebla City Edit Puebla City is the other major Spanish population in Mexico citation needed The Parque Espana a social community and school founded by Spaniards and Spanish Mexicans descendants is found in the city The Centro Gallego de Mexico makes a Beato Sebastian de Aparicio romeria to Puebla City each year this event is an interesting Galician community with Folk music and Galician dances outside the Old San Francisco convento to Downtown Puebla de Zaragoza Puebla State Demographics EditSpanish descendants make up the largest group of Europeans in Mexico and a majority of Mexicans have some degree of Spanish descent Most of their ancestors arrived during the colonial period but further hundreds of thousands have since then immigrated especially during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s 27 The Encyclopaedia Britannica states those of predominantly European descent make up closer to one sixth 17 of the Mexican population 28 Spaniards in MexicoYear Residents2010 77 069 INE 29 2011 86 658 INE 30 2012 94 617 INE 31 2013 100 782 INE 32 2014 108 314 INE 33 2015 115 620 INE 34 2016 123 189 INE 35 2017 130 832 INE 36 2018 135 155 INE 37 2019 140 199 INE 38 2020 144 553 INE 39 Spaniards living in Mexico by state INEGI 2020Raiking State Population2020 Ref 1 Mexico City 2 511 40 2 Mexico 457 41 3 Jalisco 451 42 4 Queretaro 420 43 5 Puebla 409 44 6 Nuevo Leon 375 45 7 Yucatan 238 46 8 Guanajuato 218 47 9 Aguascalientes 185 48 10 San Luis Potosi 149 49 11 Morelos 128 50 12 Michoacan 123 51 13 Sinaloa 110 52 14 Hidalgo 107 53 15 Sonora 82 54 16 Oaxaca 76 55 17 Baja California 75 56 18 Baja California Sur 75 57 19 Colima 68 58 20 Durango 46 59 21 Nayarit 40 60 22 Zacatecas 35 61 23 Tlaxcala 27 62 TOTAL 20 763 MexicoNotes Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia INEGI Notable people EditSpaniards who settled in Mexico Edit Luis Bunuel director and film producer Sara Montiel actress Luis Regueiro soccer player Marti Ventolra soccer player Gaspar Rubio soccer player Carlos Mourino businessman Natalia Jimenez singer Joaquin Lopez Doriga TV anchorman Paco Ignacio Taibo II writer and politician Jesus Hernandez Tomas politician Anna Ciocchetti actress Juan Camilo Mourino politician Lisardo actor Belinda Peregrin singer and actress See also Edit Mexico portal Spain portalImmigration to Mexico Basque Mexicans Mexico Spain relations Mexicans of European descent Hispanos of New Mexico Portuguese Mexican Mestizos in Mexico White MexicansReferences Edit Estadistica del Padron de Espanoles Residentes en el Extranjero PERE a 1 de enero de 2020 PDF Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Retrieved 20 March 2020 Mexico History Geography Facts amp Points of Interest Britannica com Retrieved 2017 08 28 Bernard Grunberg La folle aventure d Hernan Cortes in L Histoire n 322 July August 2007 Axtell James September October 1991 The Columbian Mosaic in Colonial America Humanities 12 5 12 18 Archived from the original on May 17 2008 Retrieved 2008 10 08 Emperadores Emperadores es Retrieved 2017 08 28 Anne Extremadura Spain Accommodation and Travel Guide Hotels amp Paradores Rural Tourism Allspainaccommodation com Retrieved 2017 08 28 Estado de Mexico Textos de su historia Institute Mora Mexico State government Toluca 1996 pp 227 230 Los espanoles en el Mexico Independiente Colegio de Mexico pp 624 627 Estado de Mexico Textos de su historia Institute Mora Mexico State 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censo de 2020 PDF Retrieved 25 September 2021 Further reading EditAltman Ida Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire Brihuega Spain and Puebla Mexico 1560 1620 Stanford University Press 2000 Fagen Patricia W Exiles and citizens Spanish republicans in Mexico Vol 29 University of Texas Press 2014 Faber Sebastiaan Exile and cultural hegemony Spanish intellectuals in Mexico 1939 1975 Vanderbilt University Press 2002 Kenny Michael Twentieth century Spanish Expatriates in Mexico an urban Sub culture Anthropological Quarterly 35 4 1962 169 180 Powell Thomas G Mexico and the Spanish Civil War University of New Mexico Press 1981 Rickett Rosy Refugees of the Spanish Civil War and those they left behind personal testimonies of departure separation and return since 1936 Diss The University of Manchester United Kingdom 2015 Smith Lois Elwyn Mexico and the Spanish republicans Vol 4 University of California Press 1955 External links EditHow the Spanish Civil War Drove My Family to Mexico Los que llegaron Espanoles Los ninos de Morelia Romeria del Pilar in Parque Espana Puebla City Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Spaniards in Mexico amp oldid 1150160301, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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