Mestizo Colombians refers to Colombians who are of European (mostly Spaniard) and Amerindian ancestry.
Numbers and distribution
The 2018 Census reported that 87% of the population do not consider part of some the recognised ethnic groups, being mostly Mestizos and Whites.
External sources found Mestizos are the main racial group in Colombia, making up between 49% and 58% of country's population.
According to
Latinobarometro, 47% of Colombians surveyed self identified as Mestizos.
Genetics
Genetic studies estimate that admixture of Colombians varies between 45.9% European, 33.8% Amerindian, and 20.3% African ancestry;
and 62.5% European, 27.4% Amerindian, and 9.2% African ancestry.
In a genetic research published in 2014, 77% of Colombians sampled self identified as of mixed ancestry and their average admixture was 60% European, 29% native Amerindian and 11% Subsaharan African.
See also
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Mestizo
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Race and ethnicity in Colombia
Race and ethnicity in Colombia descends mainly from three racial groups— Europeans, Amerindians, and Africans—that have mingled throughout the last 500 years of the country's history. Some demographers describe Colombia as one of the most ...
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White Colombians
White Colombians are the Colombian descendants of European and Middle Eastern people. According to the 2018 Census, 87.58% of Colombians do not identify with any ethnic group, thus being either White or Mestizo (mixed European and Amerindian anc ...
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Indigenous peoples in Colombia
Indigenous peoples of Colombia, are the ethnic groups who have inhabited Colombia since before the European colonization, in the early 16th century. According to the last census, they comprise 4.4% of the country's population, belonging to 115 ...
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Afro-Colombians
Afro-Colombians or African-Colombians ( es, afrocolombianos, links=no) are Colombians of full or partial sub-Saharan African descent ( Blacks, Mulattoes, Pardos, and Zambos).
History
Africans were enslaved in the early 16th Century in Colomb ...
References
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Ethnic groups in Colombia
Mestizo