Brasil: mais italiano ou espanhol?

[Latinus]

No visible Spanish heritage.

You actually have a point.

While Spaniards were the third largest ethnic group to emmigrate to Brazil in post-colonial times, only behind Italians and Portuguese, the Spanish immigration is "invisible" and overlooked, even Germans and Japanese, who were numerically less important, have their presence and culture in Brazil way more visible and documented.

There are some reasons for that, but I'll summarize in two:

1: Most Spaniards went mainly to the main cities (Galicians) and coffe fields (Andalusians), where there was already a big population of colonial stock, which means making their assimilation to the Brazilian society very fast. In contrast, many Venetians and Germans settled in isolated areas of Brazil, where they kept their culture and traditions alive and visible.

2: The Galicians in Brazil were usually confused with the (Northern) Portuguese immigrants, who were also called galegos in some contexts, they also worked in similar fields (like hotel franchises), one more point in contributing to the "invisibility" of Spaniards in Brazil, like the Brazilian experts in Galician immigration to Rio de Janeiro, Érica Sarmiento, says in her studies.

[DraviXi99]

The spanish here shouldn't be overlooked.