Other Peoples: Notes of Interest concerning sundry non-Israelite Nations. 22 September 2026, 11 Tishrei 5787.
Spanish Colonization in Latin America.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J9DomNRYw5g
Early colonizers in the 1500s and 1600s from Andalusia and Extramadura. See map.
Andalusians still carry small but significant genetic input from centuries of Moorish rule.
Later Galicians became the largest group of colonizers almost everywhere e. g. Cuba Argentinia, Venezuela, Brazil,
For a colonizer with Spanish roots Galiaica is the most likely single source.
Also in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic
input from Canary Island where the Guanches are ca. 25% North African.
The Basques were small in numbers but disproportionately wealthy and influential in Argentina and Chile as ranchers and landowners.