Afro-Chilean women at Carnaval con la Fuerza del Sol in 2014. | |
Total population | |
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Est. 195,809 (total) 1,529 (0.0008% African-Born population 2017)[1] 8,415 (0.05% Chilean-Born population 2013)[2] 185,865 (1% Haitian-Chilean population 2019)[3][4] | |
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: Protestanstism • Islam • Buddhism • Haitian Vodou • Animism • Atheism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Other Afro-Latin Americans |
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.[5]