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African enslaved people arrived in the country by forced migration. The first enslaved person arrived in El Salvador to work in the haciendas , in cocoa and indigo mills, and in the gold mines. In San Salvador and San Miguel , many people enslaved African people, some of whom were sent to wash gold in Honduran rivers, which was a major industry ...
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Afro-Salvadorans, called Pardo and sometimes Afro-Mestizos in the colonial period, are the descendants of the African population that were enslaved and shipped to El Salvador to work in mines in specific regions of El Salvador. They have mixed into and were naturally bred out by the general Mestizo population, which is a combination of a ...
Salvadorans (Spanish: Salvadoreños), also known as Salvadorians, are citizens of El Salvador, a country in Central America. Most Salvadorans live in El Salvador, although there is also a significant Salvadoran diaspora , particularly in the United States , with smaller communities in other countries around the world.
Central America is a subregion of the Americas [1] formed by six Latin American countries and one (officially) Anglo-American country, Belize.As an isthmus it connects South America with the remainder of mainland North America, and comprises the following countries (from north to south): Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
According to the official 2007 Census in El Salvador, 12.7% of Salvadorans identified as being "white", [167] and 86.3% as mestizo. [168] Before the conquest it was the Central American nation with the lowest Amerindian population, [169] due to diseases and hostility from Europeans, the Amerindian population fell precipitously. [170]
About 50% percent, or up to 500,000 of those who escaped the country headed to the U.S., which was already home to over 10,000 Salvadorans, making Salvadorans Americans the third-largest Hispanic American group, after the Mexican American majority and Cubans (when not including Stateside Puerto Ricans). Salvadorans however are predicted to ...
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