Spanish Chileans
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 25,624 Spanish citizens Vast majority of Chileans have at least partial Spanish ancestry (from colonial times) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| All over Chile | |
| Languages | |
| Chilean Spanish, Peninsular Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Basque | |
| Religion | |
| Mainly Roman Catholicism, Evangelicalism and Protestantism minorities | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Chilean people, Spaniards, and other Latin American peoples |
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| Significant Spanish diaspora |
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Spanish Chileans refer more often to Chileans of post-independence Spanish immigrant descent, as they have retained a Spanish cultural identity. People of pre-independence Spanish descent are typically not classified as Spanish Chileans even though they form a large majority of the Chilean population and have Spanish surnames and ancestry. This is because they rejected Spanish identity for the emergent Chilean one on the eve of national independence.