Basque diaspora

Basques have left an indelible imprint on Argentine culture and politics, with many place names and surnames, including those of several Presidents.

The Basque settlers also intermarried into the Mestizo population of central Chile in the middle of the colonial period to form the large Castizo population that exists in Chile today; Castizos makeup modern lower-middle and lower classes.

[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Miguel de Unamuno stated that two things could be clearly attributed to the Basques: The Jesuits and the Republic of Chile.

[20] An estimated 2% of Mexicans have some amount of Basque descent, and that community has increased in size from immigration from Spain in the early 20th century.

The Spanish Civil War in the 1930s brought over tens of thousands of refugees from the Basque Country to political asylum in Mexico and Latin America.

[25] A large majority of the Boise Basque community traces its ancestry to Bizkaia (Vizcaya in Spanish, Biscay in English) in northern Spain.

Basque descendants in the Philippines today consider themselves to be Filipinos and remain influential in the business and political sectors of the country.