White Latin American

White Latin Americans are the white population of Latin America. They are the descendants of 15th–to–19th century colonial-era settlers and of post-independence immigrants. Original settlers were mostly Spanish and Portuguese, but post-independence immigrants were more diverse, among them many Italian immigrants. Other large sources of immigrants were Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Poland, Lebanon and others. Smaller nu... more
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