German Chilean
German Chileans ( germanochilenos, Deutsch-Chilenen) are Chileans of German descent deriving their German ethnicity from one or both parents; mainly descendants of about 30,000 immigrants who arrived between 1846–1914. A major criterion unifying this distinctive Chilean ethnic minority has more to do with linguistics than to the geographic location or the nationality of their ancestors. Hence, the group German Chileans also incorporates descendents of Austrians, Swiss Germans, Silesians, Alsatians and other German-speaking groups. German were the third largest european immigration group to Chile, after Spaniard and Italian.
From the middle of the 19th century to the present they have played a significant role in the economic, political and cultural development of the Chilean nation. Most German Chileans are descendents from German immigrants that began to settle in Chile in the middle of the 19th century, many of them after the failed liberal German Revolution of 1848. Their main settlements were and remain mostly in Chile’s Araucanía Region, Los Ríos Region and Los Lagos Region regions in the so-called Zona Sur of Chile, including the Chilean lake district.
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