Portuguese Venezuelans

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Portuguese Venezuelans
  • Luso-venezuelanos
  • Luso-venezolanos
Total population
3,000,000(ancestry 2024) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] – 400,000(ancestry 2019) [6] [7] – 1,300,000 (Ancestry Upper Estimate) [8] [9]
(49,104 citizens) [10] [11] [12] [13] (Portuguese ancestry)
[13]
Regions with significant populations
Flag of Portugal (official).svg Portugal: 24,603 [14]
Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela 3,000,000(ancestry 2024) [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] (1,300,000 Ancestry Upper Estimate) [20] [21]
(49,104 citizens) [10] [22] [23]
Flag of the United States.svg United States 80,500 [14]
Flag of Peru.svg Peru 40,000 [14]
Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia 20,500 [14]
Flag of Chile.svg Chile 20,300 [14]
Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador 10,800 [14]
Languages
Spanish and/or Portuguese
Religion
Roman Catholicism

Portuguese Venezuelans (or Luso-Venezuelans) are Portuguese-born citizens with Venezuelan citizenship or Venezuelan-born citizens of Portuguese ancestry or citizenship. Mostly located in Caracas, Valencia and Maracaibo, also Barquisimeto, [24] the Portuguese community of Venezuela are among the largest ethnic groups in the country. The State of Portuguesa takes its name from the Portuguesa River, in which a Portuguese woman is said to have drowned.

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Portuguese arrived to Venezuela in the early and middle 20th century, as immigrants, mostly from Madeira Island. Venezuela has the second largest Portuguese diaspora in America, after Brazil. There is strong interest among a large segment of the Portuguese in Venezuela to preserve the culture and familial bond with the old country Portugal, while they have been important in the development of Venezuela holding a substantial number of businesses in the retail trade. The Portuguese language in Venezuela influences Venezuelan Spanish with some neologisms and loanwords.

Notable Portuguese Venezuelans

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References

  1. "Candidato da oposição na Venezuela pede à comunidade portuguesa que participe na recuperação do país". observador.pt. 29 December 2024. Archived from the original on 13 July 2025. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  2. "Governo português admite morte de portugueses por falência de sistema de saúde na Venezuela". observador.pt. 29 October 2022. Archived from the original on 13 July 2025. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  3. "Portugal rechaza la suspensión de TAP en Venezuela: "Es inadmisible y hostil"". F24. 29 December 2024. Archived from the original on 13 July 2025. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  4. "En medio de la crisis, los portugueses de Venezuela inician el retorno". elnuevoherald.com. 29 December 2024. Archived from the original on 13 July 2025. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  5. "Ministro de Portugal discutiu crise na Venezuela "todos os dias" na Assembleia Geral". News.un.org. 26 September 2019.
  6. "Crisis venezolana obliga a portugueses a volver a su país". DW.COM. Archived from the original on 26 November 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  7. "La crisis de Venezuela devuelve a casa a los portugueses". Swissinfo.ch. 6 February 2019. Archived from the original on 26 November 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  8. "Ministro de Portugal discutiu crise na Venezuela "todos os dias" na Assembleia Geral". News.un.org. 26 September 2019.
  9. "Maior comunidade portuguesa da América Latina esperançada numa nova Venezuela". Jn.pt. 13 April 2013.
  10. 1 2 "Observatório da Emigração: Portugueses na Venezuela". Observatorioemigracao.pt.
  11. "Crisis has Venezuela's Portuguese returning to roots". France 24. 6 February 2019.
  12. "Reforço consular em países à volta da Venezuela". Publico.pt. 8 December 2019.
  13. 1 2 "Maior comunidade portuguesa da América Latina esperançada numa nova Venezuela". Jornal de Notícias (in Portuguese). April 13, 2013. Archived from the original on 2021-07-25.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gortázar, Naiara Galarraga (March 26, 2018). "Radiografía del gran éxodo venezolano" via elpais.com.
  15. "Governo português admite morte de portugueses por falência de sistema de saúde na Venezuela". observador.pt. 29 October 2022. Archived from the original on 13 July 2025. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  16. "Candidato da oposição na Venezuela pede à comunidade portuguesa que participe na recuperação do país". observador.pt. 29 December 2024. Archived from the original on 13 July 2025. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  17. "Portugal rechaza la suspensión de TAP en Venezuela: "Es inadmisible y hostil"". F24. 29 December 2024. Archived from the original on 13 July 2025. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  18. "En medio de la crisis, los portugueses de Venezuela inician el retorno". elnuevoherald.com. 29 December 2024. Archived from the original on 13 July 2025. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  19. "Ministro de Portugal discutiu crise na Venezuela "todos os dias" na Assembleia Geral". News.un.org. 26 September 2019.
  20. "Ministro de Portugal discutiu crise na Venezuela "todos os dias" na Assembleia Geral". News.un.org. 26 September 2019.
  21. "Maior comunidade portuguesa da América Latina esperançada numa nova Venezuela". Jn.pt. 13 April 2013.
  22. "Crisis has Venezuela's Portuguese returning to roots". France 24. 6 February 2019.
  23. "Reforço consular em países à volta da Venezuela". Publico.pt. 8 December 2019.
  24. Ramos-Rodríguez, Froilán (2018). Travesía de la esperanza. La inmigración portuguesa en Barquisimeto. FEDUPEL (Pedagogic University). ISBN   978-980-273-534-1.