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Post-colonial: Spanish place names that have no history of being used during the colonial period for the place in question or for nearby related places. (Ex: Lake Buena Vista, Florida, named in 1969 after a street in Burbank, California) Non-Spanish: Place names originating from non-Spaniards or in non-historically Spanish areas.
This is a list of notable Hispanic and Latino Americans: citizens or residents of the United States with origins in Latin America or Spain. [1] The following groups are officially designated as "Spanish/Hispanic/Latino": [2] Mexican American, (Stateside) Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, Costa Rican American, Guatemalan American, Honduran American, Nicaraguan American ...
This is a list of Hispanos, both settlers and their descendants (either fully or partially of such origin), who were born or settled, between the early 16th century and 1850, in what is now the southwestern United States (including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, southwestern Colorado, Utah and Nevada), as well as Florida, Louisiana (1763–1800) and other Spanish colonies in what is ...
This list of U.S. cities by American Hispanic and Latino population covers all incorporated cities and Census-designated places with a population over 100,000 and a proportion of Hispanic and Latino residents over 30% in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Puerto Rico and the population in each city that is either Hispanic or Latino.
The community with the highest percentage of Hispanic residents (among communities with over 100,000 people) is the unincorporated community of East Los Angeles, California, whose population was 97.1% Hispanic. Among incorporated localities of over 100,000 people, the city of Laredo, Texas has the highest percentage of Hispanic residents at 95. ...
Percentage Speaking Spanish at Home Population Speaking Spanish at Home (in thousands) New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA 18,066,122 20.24 3656 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA 12,450,222 36.0128 4483 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI 8,898,149 17.3754 1546 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 7,060,749 23.0874 1630
"Little Spain" was a Spanish American neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan during the 20th century. [31] [32] Little Spain was on 14th Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. [33] A very different section of Chelsea existed on a stretch of 14th Street often referred to by residents as "Calle Catorce," or "Little Spain". [34]
Name Image Birth, death Birthplace Occupation Notes Joseph Sadoc Alemany: 1853–1884 Vic, Catalonia, Spain Spanish Catholic clergyman the first Bishop of Monterey (1850–1853) and then as Archbishop of San Francisco (1853–1884) [27] Juan Crespí: 1721–1782 Palma de Mallorca, Spain Franciscan missionary, explorer