c. 20,000 (by birth)[1]
c. 2,000,000 (by ancestry, corresponding to about 4% of the total population)[2]
Regions with significant populations
Bogotá[3],Caribbean Region,[4] Norte de Santander,[5] Santander,[6] Valle del Cauca,[7] Antioquia,[8] Cundinamarca,[9] Boyacá,[10] Colombian coffee growing axis, [11] Huila Department, [12] Cauca Department[13]
Languages
Colombian Spanish · Italian and Italian dialects
Religion
Roman Catholicism · Protestantism (Lutheranism · Evangelicalism) · Judaism
Related ethnic groups
Italians, Italian Americans, Italian Argentines, Italian Bolivians, Italian Brazilians, Italian Canadians, Italian Chileans, Italian Costa Ricans, Italian Cubans, Italian Dominicans, Italian Ecuadorians, Italian Guatemalans, Italian Haitians, Italian Hondurans, Italian Mexicans, Italian Panamanians, Italian Paraguayans, Italian Peruvians, Italian Puerto Ricans, Italian Salvadorans, Italian Uruguayans, Italian Venezuelans
Italian Colombians (Italian: italo-colombiani; Spanish: ítalo-colombianos) are Colombian-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Colombia during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Colombia.[14] Italians have been immigrating to Colombia since the early 16th century.[15]
^Fondazione Migrantes (2019). "Rapporto Italiani nel Mondo" (PDF) (in Italian). pp. 24–25. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
^"Convenzioni Inps estere, Fedi sollecita Nuova Zelanda ma anche Cile e Filippine". www.ilmondo.tv. Archived from the original on 9 February 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^Vidal Ortega, Antonino; D'Amato Castillo, Giuseppe (2015-12-01). "Los otros, sin patria: italianos en el litoral Caribe de Colombia a comienzos del siglo XX". Caravelle. Cahiers du monde hispanique et luso-brésilien (in French) (105): 153–175. doi:10.4000/caravelle.1822. ISSN 1147-6753.
^"Presencia italiana en Norte de Santander". Sílaba Editores (in Spanish). 2021-03-02. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
^Patiño, Paola (2016-11-12). "Los inmigrantes que cambiaron los apellidos en Santander". www.vanguardia.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-07-13.
^"Llegaron los inmigrantes italianos: sesenta novios para otras tantas caleñas". La Bernardi (in Spanish). 2020-10-15. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
^Maturana, Yonatan Durán (2021-01-01). "Casos de inmigrantes italianos en Antioquia, 1870-1900". Studi Emigrazione.
^"Fusagasugá, el campo de concentración de Colombia para alemanes y japoneses durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-07-13.
^Rojas Velasco, Manuel José (13 July 2022). "Narrativas partidistas sobre inmigrantes: Colombia a mediados del siglo XIX" (PDF). Repositorio.uniandes.edu.co.
^"Un italiano en tierra cafetera en los años 20 (1 parte)". La Bernardi (in Spanish). 2020-06-24. Retrieved 2022-11-08.
^"91.1A.1 Apellidos regionales de Colombia by Academia Colombiana de Genealogia - Issuu". issuu.com. Archived from the original on 2022-10-05. Retrieved 2022-11-08.
^"Noticia sobre los fundadores de los apellidos en el Cauca Grande". 1library.co (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-08.
^A game of mirrors: the changing face of ethno-racial constructs and language in the Americas. Thomas M. Stephens. University Press of America, 2003. ISBN 0-7618-2638-6, ISBN 978-0-7618-2638-5. Retrieved on 2010-10-14.
^"Los italianos (The Italians)". Revista Semana - www.semana.com (in Spanish). Publicaciones Semana S.A. 28 October 2006. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
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