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Immigration to Argentina
The history of immigration to Argentina can be divided into several major stages:
The Spanish migration flows which conquered and colonised the area that is now Argentina were mainly three:
The Spanish conquistadores and settlers were mainly from Biscay, as well from Galicia and Portugal, founding cities and establishing estancias for supplies of agricultural and livestock products. The scale of operations was reduced, mainly focused on the domestic market and the provision of the crown.
Another important population center were the cities of Asunción del Paraguay and Corrientes, founded in the area of the Guaraní people, and with important ports on navigable rivers. At the same time, Andean migration from Chile settled in San Juan and Mendoza.
Later, with the rise of smuggling and the multiplication without human intervention of wild cattle on the Pampean plains, Buenos Aires and other cities on the Mesopotamian coast began to boom.
The exact number of Hispanic migrants to the Americas is difficult to determine, due to the fragmentary nature of the sources available to date. However, there are several estimates based on different sources and calculations. In any case, their percentages were low with respect to the total population, around 1–2%, in no case exceeding 5%.
The Argentine government reports that in 1810, about 6,000 peninsular Spaniards lived in the territory of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, out of a total population of between 500–700,000 inhabitants, representing approximately 1% of the population.
The indigenous population decreased drastically in a very short period of time, both because of the deaths caused by the conquest and the contagion of diseases -such as smallpox- hitherto unknown in the continent, and because of the heavy cost in human lives of the mining operations in the Andean region; The exact figures are unknown, and it is probably impossible to establish them reliably, but most studies agree that this was one of the main features of the demographic catastrophe in America after the arrival of the Europeans, although the rest was linked to the Hispanic or Creole element.
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Immigration to Argentina
The history of immigration to Argentina can be divided into several major stages:
The Spanish migration flows which conquered and colonised the area that is now Argentina were mainly three:
The Spanish conquistadores and settlers were mainly from Biscay, as well from Galicia and Portugal, founding cities and establishing estancias for supplies of agricultural and livestock products. The scale of operations was reduced, mainly focused on the domestic market and the provision of the crown.
Another important population center were the cities of Asunción del Paraguay and Corrientes, founded in the area of the Guaraní people, and with important ports on navigable rivers. At the same time, Andean migration from Chile settled in San Juan and Mendoza.
Later, with the rise of smuggling and the multiplication without human intervention of wild cattle on the Pampean plains, Buenos Aires and other cities on the Mesopotamian coast began to boom.
The exact number of Hispanic migrants to the Americas is difficult to determine, due to the fragmentary nature of the sources available to date. However, there are several estimates based on different sources and calculations. In any case, their percentages were low with respect to the total population, around 1–2%, in no case exceeding 5%.
The Argentine government reports that in 1810, about 6,000 peninsular Spaniards lived in the territory of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, out of a total population of between 500–700,000 inhabitants, representing approximately 1% of the population.
The indigenous population decreased drastically in a very short period of time, both because of the deaths caused by the conquest and the contagion of diseases -such as smallpox- hitherto unknown in the continent, and because of the heavy cost in human lives of the mining operations in the Andean region; The exact figures are unknown, and it is probably impossible to establish them reliably, but most studies agree that this was one of the main features of the demographic catastrophe in America after the arrival of the Europeans, although the rest was linked to the Hispanic or Creole element.