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According to the City of Portland, "In all categories, the Eastside is more racially diverse than the Westside. Hispanics are most concentrated in North Portland at nearly 15% of the population. NE Portland has the highest concentration of African Americans at 30%.
Portland (/ ˈ p ɔːr t l ə n d / PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated in the northwestern area of the state at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, it is the county seat of Multnomah County, Oregon's most populous county.
The most notable event for the performing arts in Oregon is the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, a cultural event that has been running in Ashland, Oregon since 1935. [17] The Portland Opera is another walk of the performing arts culture of Oregon and was the world premiere location for both Bernard Herrmann 's Wuthering Heights [ 18 ] and ...
Latino Gay Pride, Portland, Oregon, 2011. The Portland metropolitan area has Oregon's largest Latino population. In 2022, Jamie Goldberg of The Oregonian wrote, "More than half of Oregon's Latino population lives in Multnomah, Washington and Marion counties. All three saw their Latino populations grow by at least 25% in the last decade.
An enslaved man known as York came to Oregon in 1803 as part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Other early Black explorers came overland to Oregon as free trappers or as laborers for John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company and the British Hudson Bay Company. [3] Both enslaved and free Black people settled in Oregon in the 1840s and 1850s.
Middle Eastern-American culture in Portland, Oregon (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Portland, Oregon" This category contains only the following page.
Oregon claims the D River as the shortest river in the world, [73] though the state of Montana makes the same claim of its Roe River. [74] Oregon is also home to Mill Ends Park (in Portland), [75] the smallest park in the world at 452 square inches (0.29 m 2). Oregon is split into eight geographical regions.
Oregon is ecologically diverse. The west side of the state has a marine-influenced climate and receives plentiful precipitation three seasons of the year. In contrast, Eastern Oregon lies in the rain shadow of the Cascades and is much drier.