Americans in Argentina

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American Argentines

Americano-argentinos (Spanish)
Total population
400,000 (of ancestry)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Mainly in Buenos Aires and Córdoba
Languages
Spanish • English
Religion
Roman Catholicism • Protestantism
Related ethnic groups
Americans European Argentines

There is a community of Americans living in Argentina consisting of immigrants and expatriates from the United States as well as their local born descendants. There are roughly about 60,000 Americans living in the country, and 26,000 of them live in the capital city, Buenos Aires and 400,000 argentines with an americans ancestry .^[2]

Migration history

From 2002 to 2003, many Americans migrated to Argentina when the country suddenly became comparatively inexpensive thus it became a cheap place to live in.^[3]

Immigration from the United States increased further during and after the financial crisis of 2007–2008 as many Americans fled the crisis-ridden United States to escape to Argentina. A few interviews and immigration data shows a 12% increase in the number of Americans (742) who applied for permanent residency in 2008.

Education

American schools in Argentina include:

• Asociación Escuelas Lincoln (Buenos Aires)

Notable people

• Guy Williams (1924–1989), actor
• Adrián Suar (born 1968), actor, producer, and businessman
• Amán Rawson (1792–1847), physician and merchant, politician
• Andrea Collarini (born 1992), tennis player
• Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824–1896), astronomer
• Bernhard Dawson (1890–1960), astronomer
• Tranquilo Cappozzo (1918–2003), rower and Olympic champion
• Charles Dillon Perrine (1867–1951), astronomer
• John M. Thome (1843–1908), astronomer
• Jonas Coe (1805–1864), naval commander
• Bryan Gerzicich (born 1984), football player
• Dan Newland (born 1949), journalist, translator, and writer
• Kevin Johansen (born 1964), rock musician
• Maxine Swann (born 1969), fiction author
• Melville Sewell Bagley (1838–1880), businessman and creator of Hesperidina, the unofficial Argentine national liqueur
• Renato Corsi (born 1963), association football player
• Richard Maury (1882–1950), railway engineer and designer of the iconic Tren a las Nubes train service
• Richard Shindell (born 1960), folk songwriter
• Roy Cortina (born 1964), politician and President of the Socialist Party in Buenos Aires
• Viggo Mortensen (born 1958), actor
• William Henry Hudson (1841–1922), author, naturalist and ornithologist
• Jorge Newberry, aviation pioneer

See also

• Argentina–United States relations
• Argentine Americans

References