Flashcards: Ethnic groups in Chile

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 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 Aymara or Aimara (Aymara: aymara ) people are an indigenous nation in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America; about 1 million live in Bolivia, Peru and Chile.

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

Chono or Chona is a generic name for a nomadic, indigenous people of the Chiloé Archipelago, Chile.

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 Huilliche, Huiliche or Huilliche-Mapuche are the southern partiality of the Mapuche macroethnic group of Chile.

The Yaghan, also called Yagán, Yahgan, Yámana, Yamana, or Tequenica, are one of the indigenous peoples of the Southern Cone, who are regarded as the southernmost peoples in the world.

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

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.

The Selk'nam, also known as the Onawo or Ona people, are an indigenous people in the Patagonian region of southern Argentina and Chile, including the Tierra del Fuego islands.

(This article is about the Chilean ethnic group. For information on the population of Chile, see Demographics of Chile. For Chilean nationality, see Chilean nationality law.) Chileans (Spanish: Chilenos) are natives of and long-term immigrants to Chile.

American Chileans and Canadian Chileans are among roughly 300,000 Chileans of North American ancestry (Americans and Canadians).

Koreans in Chile formed Latin America's sixth-largest Korean diaspora community as of 2011, according to the statistics of South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Argentines in Chile consists of mainly of immigrants and expatriates from Argentina as well as their locally born descendants.

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.

Afro-Chileans are citizens of Chile, descended from Africans who were brought to the New World with the arrival of the Spaniards toward the end of the slave trade.

The Changos, also known as Camanchacos or Camanchangos, were an indigenous people who inhabited a long stretch of the Pacific coast from the Atacama desert to the Coquimbo Region in what is now southern Peru and northern Chile.

The Palestinian community in Chile is believed to be the largest Palestinian community outside of the Arab world.

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 National Corporation for Indigenous Development, or Corporación Nacional de Desarrollo Indígena (CONADI') in Spanish, is a Chilean institution founded in September 28, 1993 by the "Ley Indigena 19253" (“Indigenous Law”).

It is estimated that there are over 20,000 Chinese people in Chile.

Peruvians in Chile consists of mainly of immigrants and expatriates from Peru as well as their locally born descendants.

Indians in Chile form one of the smaller populations of the Indian diaspora.

Japanese Chileans (Spanish: Japonés Chileno or Nipo-chileno, Japanese: 日系チリ人 Nikkei Chiri-jin) are Chileans with ethnic origin from Japan.