Flashcards: Ethnic groups in Argentina

The Kawésqar or Kaweskar, also called Alacaluf or Halakwulup (meaning "mussel eater" in Yaghan), are a South American people who live in the Chilean Patagonia, specifically in the Brunswick Peninsula, and Wellington, Santa Inés, and Desolación islands of the western area of Tierra del Fuego.

The Abipones (Spanish: Abipones, singular Abipón) were an indigenous peoples of Argentina's Gran Chaco, users of one of the Guaicuruan languages.

The Jews (/dʒuːz/; Hebrew: יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3 Yehudim, Israeli pronunciation [jehuˈdim]), also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Israelites, or Hebrews, of the Ancient Near East.

The Basques (Basque: euskaldunak; Spanish: vascos; French: basques, English: /bɑːsks/ or /bæsks/) are an indigenous ethnic group characterised by the Basque language, a common Basque culture and shared ancestry to the ancient Vascones and Aquitanians.

The Charrúa are an indigenous people of South America in present-day Uruguay and the adjacent areas in Argentina (Entre Ríos) and Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul).

Guarani are a group of culturally related indigenous peoples of South America.

The Diaguita people are a group of South American indigenous people native to the Chilean Norte Chico and the Argentine Northwest.

Armenian Argentines are ethnic Armenians who live in Argentina.

Belarusian Argentines (Belarusian: Беларусы ў Аргенціне, Russian: Белорусы в Аргентине, Spanish: Bielorrusos en Argentina) — a part of the Belarusian diaspora that consists of the Belarusians who emigrated to Argentina and their descendants.

The Atacama people, known as atacameños or atacamas in Spanish and kunzas, likan-antai or likanantaí in the native language, are an indigenous people from the Atacama Desert and altiplano region in the north of Chile and Argentina and southern Bolivia.

The Chané or Izoceño are a native ethnic group whose traditional lands are in the plains and valleys between the Gran Chaco and the Andes in northern Argentina, Paraguay and southern Bolivia.

The Kaingang (also spelled caingangue in Portuguese or kanhgág in the Kaingang language) people are a Native American ethnic group spread out over the four southern Brazilian states of São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul.

Fuegians are one of the three tribes of indigenous inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of South America.

The Quilmes people were an indigenous tribe of the Diaguita group settled in the western subandean valleys of today’s Tucumán province, in northwestern Argentina.

The Tehuelche people is the generic name given to a group of indigenous peoples of Patagonia and the southern pampas regions of Argentina and Chile.

Russian Argentines are people from Russia living in Argentina, and their Argentine-born descendants.

Argentines (Spanish: Argentinos) are the citizens of the Argentine Republic, or their descendants abroad.

Ukrainian Argentines (Ukrainian: Українці Аргентини, Ukraintsi Argentini, Spanish: Ucranio-argentinos) are Argentine citizens of Ukrainian descent or Ukraine-born people who reside in Argentina.

Cape Verdean Argentines are Argentine residents whose ancestry originated in Cape Verde.

Japanese Argentines or Japanese Argentinians (Spanish: nipo-argentinos, Japanese: 日系アルゼンチン人 Nikkei Aruzenchin-jin) are Argentine citizens of Japanese ancestry, comprising Japanese immigrants and their descendants born in Argentina.

There is a community of Americans living in Argentina consisting of immigrants and expatriates from the United States as well as their local born descendants.

An Angolan Argentine is an Argentinian of Angolan descent or an Angolan naturalised Argentinian.

A Dominican Argentine (Spanish: domínico-argentino) is an Argentine citizen of full or partial Dominican ancestry.

Argentina has 35 indigenous groups or Argentine Amerindians or Native Argentines, according to the Complementary Survey of the Indigenous Peoples of 2004, in the first attempt by the government in more than 100 years to recognize and classify the population according to ethnicity.

At the Argentine national census of 2010 the total population was 40,117,096, of whom 149,493 (0.37%) identified as Afro-Argentine.

Asian-Argentines or Asian-Argentinians refers to Argentines of Asian ancestry who are citizens or residents of Argentina.

The Nivaclé people are an indigenous people of the Gran Chaco.

Paraguayan Argentines are Argentine citizens of full or partial Paraguayan descent or Paraguay-born people who reside in Argentina.

Chinese Argentines are Argentine citizens of Chinese ancestry or Chinese-born immigrants.

Arab Argentines refers to Argentine citizens or residents whose ancestry traces back to various waves of immigrants, largely of Arab cultural and linguistic heritage and/or identity originating mainly from what is now Lebanon and Syria, but also some individuals from the twenty-two countries which comprise the Arab world such as Palestine, Egypt, and Morocco.

Pehuenche (Pewenche, people of pewen in Mapudungun) are an indigenous people who are part of the Mapuche peoples; they live in the Andes in south central Chile and Argentina.

The Teushen or Tehues were an indigenous hunter-gatherer people of Patagonia in Argentina.

The Qulla (Quechuan for south, Hispanicized and mixed spellings Colla, Kolla) are an indigenous people of Western Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina, living in Jujuy and Salta Provinces.

There is a small community of Indians in Argentina who are mainly immigrants from India and the neighboring countries with Indo-Caribbean influence (i.e. Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Suriname) and some of whom were born in Argentina and are of Indian heritage.

Syrian Argentines are Argentine-born citizens of Syrian descent or Syrian-born people who reside in Argentina.