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Spanish Costa Rican are people from Costa Rica with Spanish ancestry from both the conquerors of the colonial period as immigrants who arrived after independence and the Central American Federation of disunion. Historically this part of the population was called Criollo and were privileged but did not have equal rights with the Spaniards, some of them were mixed with Mestizos. Approximately 16,482 Spanish citizens living in Costa Rica for 2009.[1]
^Censo electoral de españoles residentes en el extranjero 2009 INE-Censo cerrado. Archived 27 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2014-12-08.
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