Saturday, October 15 — National Hispanic Heritage Month winds up today. The annual commemoration, beginning every September 15, can often treat Hispanics as a single, undifferentiated population. But the roughly 53-million Hispanic residents in America hail from a great variety of nations and cultures in the Caribbean, or south of the Rio Grande River. It’s well known the greatest number come from Mexico — over 34 million. But nearly 5 million are of Puerto Rican origin, and another nearly 2 million trace their roots to Cuba. About the same number are from El Salvador. Colombia and Guatemala are claimed by over 1 million residents each. The Hispanic nation with the fewest U.S. immigrants is Paraguay, with just over 23,000.
Source: American Community Survey.
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