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What is the nationality of Venezuela?
Venezuela
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela República Bolivariana de Venezuela (Spanish) | |
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Ethnic groups (2011) | 51.6\% Mestizo (mixed Indigenous and White) 43.6\% White 3.6\% Black 1.2\% Indigenous |
Religion (2012) | 91\% Christianity —71\% Roman Catholic —17\% Protestant —3\% Other Christian 8\% No religion 1\% Other |
Demonym(s) | Venezuelan |
What percentage of Venezuelans are white?
White Venezuelan population by Venezuelan state
Rank (by \%) | State | \% white |
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1 | Tachira | 58.8\% |
2 | Mérida | 53.7\% |
3 | Capital District | 51.2\% |
4 | Trujillo | 48.3\% |
What do Venezuelans like?
Venezuelans are often described as warm, welcoming and open people. They are generally unified by a shared desire for fairness and equality. This is embodied by the national hero, Simón Bolívar, of whom they are very proud.
What race is Venezuelans?
Venezuela is a country of immigrants. About two-thirds of the population is mestizo (of mixed European and indigenous [Amerindian] ancestry) or mulatto-mestizo (African, European, and indigenous); about one-fifth of Venezuelans are of European lineage, and one-tenth have mainly African ancestry.
What percentage of Venezuela is white?
About 51.6\% of the population is mixed (mestizo) white, Amerindian and black in Venezuela, while 46.6\% are white or of European ancestry. Another 3.7\% is predominantly/fully African, while 2.7\% is of predominant/full Amerindian ancestry, and 1.0\% other races (mainly Asians).
Were there African slaves in Venezuela?
Enslaved Africans were transported to Venezuela mostly in the eighteenth century to work on the numerous cocoa plantations. Despite proposals by Simón Bolívar, ‘The Liberator’, slavery was not abolished upon independence in 1811, but rather some forty years later with the Law of Abolition of Slavery of 1854.
Is Venezuela homogeneous?
As a result of these racial mixtures, Venezuelan society from its very beginnings displayed a more homogeneous ethnic makeup than most other Latin American colonies. The large group of freedmen worked mostly as manual laborers in the emerging cities or lived as peasants on small plots of land.