Afro-Argentines
Sign in to saveAfro-Argentines (), also known as Black Argentines (), are Argentines who have predominantly or total Sub-Saharan African ancestry. The Afro-Argentine population is the result of people being brought over during the transatlantic slave trade during the centuries of Spanish domination in the region and immigration.
Key facts
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- Afro-Argentines
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- Afro-Argentines representing Senegal during a 2010 Day of the Immigrants celebration in Buenos Aires
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- Sub-Saharan ancestry predominates 302,936 (2022 census) 0.66% of the Argentine populationcenter|frameless|Proportion of Black Argentines in each department as of the 2022 Argentine census
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- Predominantly in the Greater Buenos Aires and in the Argentine Northwest
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- Buenos Aires
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- 128,804
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- Buenos Aires City
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- 40,670
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- Córdoba
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- 18,366
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- Santa Fe
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- 16,560
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- Salta
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- 10,632
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- Majority: SpanishMinority: WolofPortugueseHaitian Creole
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- Majority: CatholicismMinority: SunnismTraditional religion
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- Sub-Saharan AfricansBlack Latin AmericansBlack AmericansBlack CanadiansBlack JamaicansOthers
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31 sectionsContents
- Importation of African slaves during colonial period
- Black people in the independence and early history of Argentina
- Decline of the Afro-Argentine population
- Present
- Demographics
- Immigrants from Angola
- Immigrants from Cape Verde
- Immigrants from Dominican Republic
- Immigrants from South Africa
- Other immigrants from Africa
- In Buenos Aires
- In Rosario
- Black population by province
- African influence in Argentine culture
- Music
- Candombe
- Tango
- Murga
- Racism
- Notable Afro-Argentines (including distant descendants)
- Military
- Politics
- Music and literature
- TV and film
- Sports
- Other
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- See also
- Further reading
- References
- External links
Afro-Argentines (), also known as Black Argentines (), are Argentines who have predominantly or total Sub-Saharan African ancestry. The Afro-Argentine population is the result of people being brought over during the transatlantic slave trade during the centuries of Spanish domination in the region and immigration.
During the 18th and 19th centuries they accounted for up to fifty percent of the population in certain cities, and had a deep impact on Argentine culture. Some old theories held it that in the 19th century the Afro-Argentine population declined sharply due to several factors, such as the Argentine War of Independence (c. 1810–1818), high infant mortality rates, low numbers of married couples who were both Afro-Argentine, the War of the Triple Alliance, cholera epidemics in 1861 and 1864 and a yellow fever epidemic in 1871.