Chilean Brazilians (, Spanish: ''Chileno-brasileños'') are Brazilian citizens of full, partial, or predominantly Chilean ancestry or
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...
-born people who reside in
Brazil
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.
Emigration of
Chileans
Chileans (, ) are an ethnic group and nation native to the country of Chile and its neighboring insular territories. Most Chileans share a common culture, history, ancestry and language. The overwhelming majority of Chileans are the product o ...
has decreased during the last decade: It is estimated that 857,781 Chileans live abroad, 50.1% of those being in Argentina (the highest number), 13.3% in Brazil and 8.8% in the
United States
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.
Notable Chilean Brazilians
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José Agüero José Agüero may refer to:
* José Agüero (Brazilian tennis) (born 1933), Brazilian tennis player of the 1950s.
* José Agüero (Cuban tennis), Cuban tennis player of the 1940s.
* José Agüero (footballer), Spanish footballer for Athletic ...
, tennis player
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Adriana Prieto, Argentine-born actress
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Mauricio Viana, Brazilian-born Chilean footballer
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Joe Vasconcellos
José Manuel Yáñez Meira de Vasconcellos (born March 9, 1959, in Santiago de Chile), better known as Joe Vasconcellos, is a Chilean singer/songwriter and composer of Latin rock, with influences of Latin American fusion and Brazilian popular m ...
,Chilean-born singer
See also
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Brazil–Chile relations
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Immigration to Brazil
Immigration to Brazil is the movement to Brazil of foreign peoples to reside permanently. It should not be confused with the forcible bringing of people from Africa as slaves. Latin Europe accounted for four-fifths of the arrivals (1.8 mill ...
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Chilean people
Chileans (, ) are an ethnic group and nation native to the country of Chile and its neighboring Insular Chile, insular territories. Most Chileans share a common Culture of Chile, culture, History of Chile, history, Cultural heritage, ancestry ...
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Spanish immigration to Brazil
Spanish emigration peaked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and it was concentrated to Argentina, Uruguay and Cuba. Between 1882 and 1930, 3,297,312 Spaniards emigrated, of whom 1,594,622 went to Argentina and 1,118,960 went to Cuba.FAUS ...
References
Ethnic groups in Brazil
Brazil
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