Some Italian immigrants in the Casa Italia of San José, in the first half of the 20th century.
Total population
c. 2,300 (by birth)[1]
c. 380,000 (by ancestry, 7.5% of Costa Rica's population)[2][3]
Regions with significant populations
Coto Brus Canton · San José
Languages
Costa Rican Spanish · Italian and Italian dialects
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Italians, Italian Americans, Italian Argentines, Italian Bolivians, Italian Brazilians, Italian Canadians, Italian Chileans, Italian Colombians, 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 Costa Ricans (Italian: italo-costaricani; Spanish: ítalo-costarricenses) are Costa Rican-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Costa Rica during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Costa Rica. Most of them reside in San Vito, the capital city of the Coto Brus Canton. Both Italians and their descendants are referred to in the country as tútiles.[4][5] There were over 380,000 Costa Ricans of Italian descent,[2][3] corresponding to about 7.5% of Costa Rica's population, while there were around 2,300 Italian citizens.[1]
^ abInec — Sección de Estadística Archived 27 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine. INEC.
^ ab"Costa Rica e Italia: Países unidos por la historia y la cultura". Archived from the original on 8 January 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ ab"La inmigración italiana en Costa Rica. Primera Parte: Prologo". Archived from the original on 11 October 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
^Agüero Chaves, Arturo (1996). Diccionario de costarriqueñismos(PDF). San José, Costa Rica: Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica. p. 322. ISBN 9977-916-55-1. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
^Mejía Mejía, Francisco (2019). Francisco Mejía Mejía: La autobiografía de un campesino costarricense, 1923-1981(PDF). San José: University of Costa Rica. p. 264. ISBN 978-9930-9585-1-3. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
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