Does he look Latino/Native American? Filipino dude...

[Selurong]

Does this Filipino dude from Cagayan look Native American or Latino?
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[Selurong]

Actually, the place where he is from, Cagayan, really has Native American descent since it was one of the earliest Spanish presidios in the Philippines.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio

Presidios are the rare fortress-settlements really founded by Spaniards or Latin-Americans, all the other Filipino cities were for natives or had grown mostly populated by Malays, Negritos or Chinese.

Here's a table of the number of soldiers the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico) sent to the outlined presidios in the Philippines in a given year.


In the 1600s, in total, Mexico sent 15,600 soldiers into the Spanish-Philippines, which was then inhabited by 660,000 people.

I don't know about the amount of Mexicans that came in the next centuries since the paper only focuses on the founding soldier-settlers of the first Spanish settlements. They could be more though.

However, the Mexicans who came to the Philippines weren't uniform. They were a mix of Mullatoes, Mestizos, Boys and Native-Americans.

Do you think that dude has genuine Native American descent or it just happens that he has that phenotype from the natives?

[Selurong]

Bump anyone please reply.

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[gadele]

If you mean by Native american a full native american the answer is no.
He definitely can pass as latino (50 - 60% Native american) in certain places.

[Catarinense1998]

Maybe he passes as pure blood amazonian.

[Selurong]

If you mean by Native american a full native american the answer is no.
He definitely can pass as latino (50 - 60% Native american) in certain places.

Ok thanks for the reply.

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[Selurong]

Maybe he passes as pure blood amazonian.

Really? I think his phenotype is more Pueblid than Amazonian. The kinds of Latinos who made it into the Philippines where those from around Mexico and Peru but as far as I know, no Amazonians came here though.

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[Catarinense1998]

Really? I think his phenotype is more Pueblid than Amazonian. The kinds of Latinos who made it into the Philippines where those from around Mexico and Peru but as far as I know, no Amazonians came here though.

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Trust in me, andean people from Bolivia and Peru are very diferrent from the amazonian ones. And this dude looks more amazonian than andean. Any doubt, search for some images in google, and compare it.

[Selurong]

Trust in me, andean people from Bolivia and Peru are very diferrent from the amazonian ones. And this dude looks more amazonian than andean. Any doubt, search for some images in google, and compare it.

Ok he probably might be descended from among the more Amazonian type Peruvians who came here...


"SECOND BOOK OF THE SECOND PART OF THE CONQUESTS OF THE FILIPINAS ISLANDS, AND CHRONICLE OF THE RELIGIOUS OF OUR FATHER, ST. AUGUSTINE"(Zamboanga City History) "He (Governor Don Sebastían Hurtado de Corcuera) brought a great reënforcements of soldiers, many of them from Perú, as he made his voyage to Acapulco from that kingdom."

But if that's the case, how come this Amazonian looking dude is from Northern Luzon? As far as I know, Luzon was more the territory of Mexican settlers. Meanwhile, the Peruvians settled at the south in Zamboanga city where they helped Sebastián Hurtado de Corcuera y Gaviria, the former governor of Panama, to wage a war against Sultan Kudarat.

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