Immigration to Nicaragua

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First generation immigrants account for less than 1% of the population of Nicaragua, or about 50,000 people. Immigrants have come from neighboring countries, Europe, Asia and elsewhere. In the past there was also an intake of African slaves. These immigrants have combine with the established European settlers and indigenous Mestizos people to give Nicaragua a wide cultural mix. Immigration into Nicaragua has recently increased after a considerable drop in the decades between 1950 and 1980.

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Currently and statistics

According to data from 2020, people born in Honduras represent the largest group of immigrants in Nicaragua, with 31,09% of the total, followed by people from Costa Rica and the United States. [1]

PlaceCountry2020
1Flag of Honduras.svg  Honduras 13,110
2Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica 11,281
3Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 3,775
4Flag of El Salvador.svg  El Salvador 2,557
5Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala 1,843
6Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 984
7Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 885
8Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 480
9Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 467
10Flag of Panama.svg  Panama 423
11Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 313
12Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 281
13Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 278
14Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 262
15Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 237
16Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 202
17Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 198
18Flag of Senegal.svg  Senegal 195
19Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 165
20Flag of France.svg  France 154
21Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 144
22Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 130
23Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 126
24Flag of Antigua and Barbuda.svg  Antigua and Barbuda 123
25Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria 117
26Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador 115
27Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 86
27Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas 86
29Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 83
30Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 80
TOTAL42,167

History

Early of immigration

The Nicaragua immigration began with the arrival of the first conqueror Gil González de Ávila, in April 1523. after began arriving soldiers, missionaries, cures and Castilian laborers, some stayed, but the majority re-emigrated to Peru. So also came first African blacks slaves of the Europeans. The Spaniards lived in towns and villages founded for them, the Indians were forced to live in so-called Indian villages. The cities founded by the Spaniards were León, Granada, and Nueva Segovia, the towns of Santa María de la Esperanza and Villa Hermosa (both close to Nueva Segovia), New Jaen (near the Great Lake), the Villa de Nuestra Señora de Rivas and the town of El Realejo founded to assist the rapid growth of the port of Possession. All the others were Indian villages such as Sutiaba, Jalteva, Sébaco, Matagalpa, Metapa, etc. In the Caribbean, from 1640 there was a growth of zambos, because to the arrival of a Portuguese slave ship who settled in the Mosquito Coast, close to the coast of Cabo Gracias a Dios in Honduras, these slaves were mixed with some natives of the region. [2]

European immigration

The first Europeans immigrants to Nicaragua began arriving in 1524 with the troops, priests and laborers who came with Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, the Spanish conqueror of Nicaragua, These were from regions near Sevilla, Puerto de Palos, and Cadiz. In the sixteenth century, some pirates from England, Holland, and France were settled in the Mosquito Coast. In the late of the seventeenth century these abandoned the pirataje and engaged in the commerce, also occurred some mixtures between these European pirates with the Indians of the Mosquito Coast. So founded the town of Blawveld (after called Bluefields by the Britons) since the seventeenth century. However, during the three centuries that lasted the Spanish colony (1524-1821) immigrants in Nicaragua were mostly originating from the Iberian Peninsula, There was a very small number of immigrants from friendly countries of Colonial Spain, from the Catholic populations in Italy, France, Ireland, Austria, and the Germans principalities of the south. [2] After the independence traders from England, France, Germany and Italy arrived to reside in Nicaragua and do business, but most moved to Matagalpa, mainly Germans since the construction of coffee fincas, while the Britons regained the Mosquito Coast after withdrawal in the early nineteenth century. [3]

Other countries

Chinese immigration

The first Chinese immigrants arrived in Nicaragua on the coast of the Central American country in the second half of the nineteenth century. As the first members of the Chinese colonies in the Americas, these immigrants came to Nicaragua to escape the chaotic situation in China for that time. The majority of them came from the province of Guangdong, which was what had relatively less control over their ports. the travelers enter to San Juan del Norte navigating the river of the same name and then the lake of Granada, to disembark at the port of La Virgen in Rivas, moving overland to San Juan del Sur, where they took another ship to California. However, the Chinese people continued to arrive, many of them illegally by bribing officials. They focused mainly on agriculture, fishing, and retail trade. In the mid-1920s, was performed a census where it was made known that Bluefields had a population of 4,000 inhabitants, of whom five hundred were pure Chinese. [4]

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