Armenian Argentines

Armenian Argentines
Հայերն Արգենտինայում (Armenian)
Armenios en Argentina (Spanish)
Armenian Argentines during the Day of the immigrants in Buenos Aires.
Total population
Unknown (by birth)
+ 165,000 (by ancestry)
0.5% of Argentina's population
Regions with significant populations
Buenos Aires, smaller numbers in Córdoba, Mar del Plata, Berisso and Rosario
Languages
Spanish · Armenian
Religion
Majority: Oriental Orthodoxy
Minority: Catholicism · Protestant
Related ethnic groups
Armenians · Armenian Brazilians · Armenian Uruguayans · Armenian Americans

Armenian Argentines (Armenian: Հայերն Արգենտինայում, romanized: Hayern Argentinayum; Spanish: Armenios en Argentina) are ethnic Armenians who live in Argentina. Estimates vary, but 165,000 people of Armenian ancestry live in the country, forming one of the largest groups in the Armenian diaspora worldwide. The core of the population came from Cilicia, Syria and Lebanon.