Latin America
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African & European Ancestry of Mexicans
I have scaled it to 100%, I finished Northern Mexico's African and European. I am almost done doing Southern Mexico's European (the African was the first spreadsheet I had finished)
Northern Mexico's European heritage
Northeast vs Northwestern Mexico
Northeastern Mexico:
The Spaniards who settled there were majority from Andalusia, Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha and small pockets of Northern Spaniards from Cantabaria, Asturias, Navarre and Basque
The Portuguese who majority settled there were coming from Azores Islands
The Italians who majority were settling there were coming from the Northern part with small pockets from the Southern
Sephardi Jews also settled there and made it their home, in which majority of them were coming from Portugal and then Spain
Northwestern Mexico:
The Spaniards came from various parts, but unlike Northeastern Mexico, they received a rather much larger Basque/Northern Spanish population
There were Portuguese and Italian soldiers who came with the Spanish to colonize the Northwestern part of Mexico
Since I don't much samples from Sinaloa and Baja California, I am not sure how much those Italians even contributed to the gene pool of that population
Obviously, Sephardi Jews also settled there
Northern Mexico's African heritage
60.8% West African
21.7% Central & Southeastern African
0.5% Northeast African
17.0% Broadly African
Adjusting the percentages
61.3% West African (Including Northeast African)
38.7% Central African (Including Broadly African)
Their African ancestry seems to be Fula and Angolan (North and South) for the most part, while others a mixture of Nigerian
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Originally Posted by Duffmannn
Mexico don't import many slaves during during the Atlantic slave trade. Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Dominican Republic have the have the highest percent of African ancestry.
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