Croatian Uruguayans comprise Croat migrants to Uruguay and their descendants.
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Total population | |
3,300 | |
Languages | |
Uruguayan Spanish, Croatian | |
Religion | |
Catholicism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Croatian Argentines |
The first Croats reached the Río de la Plata region during the second half of the 18th century; the biggest inflow of immigrants was mostly during the first half of the 20th century.[1] They established their own institutions, such as the Croatian Home.[2]
According to UN estimates there are some 3,300 people of Croat descent living in Uruguay. Other estimates place the figure at around 5,000.[3]
In 2006 Eduardo R. Antonich published the monograph "Croatia and Croats in Uruguay".[4]
Notable people edit
- Past
- Antonio Lussich (1848-1928), sailor, writer and naturalist
- Arturo Lussich (1872-1966), physician and politician
- Raúl Sendic (1926-1989), politician and guerrilla leader
- Teodoro Vilardebó Matulić (1803–1856), physician
- Nancy Guguich (1944-2021), vocalist
- Present
- Margarita Percovich (born 1941), politician and activist
- Jorge Jukich (born 1943), Olympic cyclist
- Raúl Fernando Sendic (born 1962), politician, Vice President of the Republic 2015-2017
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Croats in Uruguay (in Spanish)
- ^ "Croatian Home". Archived from the original on 2020-06-04. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
- ^ Croats in South America Archived 2015-07-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Croatian)
- ^ Croatia and Croats in Uruguay Archived 2015-07-21 at the Wayback Machine (in Croatian)
External links edit
- Pi Hugarte, Renzo; Vidart, Daniel (1970). El legado de los inmigrantes (PDF) (in Spanish). Montevideo: Nuestra Tierra.
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