Seen in Mexico by the whole Euskalerria concept, Basque descendants can be from Navarre, Euskadi or Iparralde.
[2] Fermín de Francisco Lasuén was the founder of many of the Spanish missions in Alta California.
[3] There was a divide between the Basque community: the first group were rural unskilled, economic emigrants that arrived in the late 19th and early 20th century and the other were political exiles of the Spanish Civil War that tended to have technical or academic education.
[4] A notable migrant of the former group was Braulio Iriarte who immigrated to Mexico in 1877 with no education or professional experience.
[4] He also owned haciendas in Querétaro, mines in Hidalgo, large properties in Mexico City and helped found various corporations, including Grupo Modelo.