How did Spain populate an entire continent?

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I never understood this. From what I was taught in history class, masses of native north & south americans died because of European diseases. And for each latin american country, of course there are large african and native descents, but from what I read each country has a massive part of Spanish heritage.

Nowadays, how many humans live between El Paso and Ushuaia? More than half a billion? Yet Spain is only a country of 40m people. How is this possible?

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They died in large population centers, Still tons of people just going about their business out in the sticks.

1: Brazil is Portuguese, not Spanish. That’s 214.3 million people.

2: Immigration/Slavery. Almost the entirety of Argentina is of Spanish/Italian decent.

3: In Mexico for example, some 62% of the population is considered ‘Mestizo’ which is a mix of ‘Amerindian’ and spanish decent. Brazil has a Mulatto population of approx 43%.

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