Arab Immigration To Latin America. Barranquilla has the largest number of arabs in the country. This equates to about 25 30 million people.
Arabs have been migrating to latin america establishing cultural connections and contributing to latin america s development since the 19th century. They mainly came from lebanon syria and palestine. Arab diaspora العرب المغتربون.
The vast majority of early arab immigrants in latin america were christians specifically the maronite and melkite branches of catholicism from what is today syria and lebanon fleeing persecution and discrimination when the region was under ottoman turkish rule.
Majority of arab immigrants in latin america were christian. Since it is a large commercial center it drew many arab immigrants who have built a huge community center which is the envy of the other communities. The vast majority live along the caribbean coastline. Regions with significant populations brazil estimated 9 12 million with at least partial ancestry france 3 3 to 5 5 million people of north african arab or berber descent.