Afro-Chileans
Afro-Chileans are Chilean people of African descent. They may be descendants of slaves who were brought to Chile via the trans-Atlantic slave trade, or recent migrants from other parts of Latin America, the Caribbean or Africa.
Afro-Chilean women at Carnaval con la Fuerza del Sol in 2014. | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Est. 195,809 (total) 1,529 (0.0008% African-Born population 2017) 8,415 (0.05% Chilean-Born population 2013) 185,865 (1% Haitian-Chilean population 2019) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Arica y Parinacota Region, Tarapacá Region, Santiago Metropolitan Region | |
| Languages | |
| Majority: Spanish (Chilean dialects, Caribbean dialects) Minority: Haitian Creole • French • Niger-Congo languages • Bantu languages | |
| Religion | |
| Majority: Roman Catholicism Minority: Islam • Haitian Vodou • Animism • Atheism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Afro-Latin Americans |
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