Lebanese Colombians
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Estimates: 125,000[1] 700,000[2] 3,500,000[3][4] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Barranquilla · Cartagena · Bucaramanga · Bogotá · Cali · Maicao · Santa Marta · Montería · Sincelejo. | |
| Languages | |
| Spanish · Arabic · French | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism, Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Syrian Colombians, Arab Colombians, Asian Colombians |
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Lebanese Colombians are Lebanese immigrants in Colombia and their descendants. Most of the Lebanese community's forebears immigrated to Colombia from the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for economic, political and religious reasons.[5] The first Lebanese moved to Colombia in the late nineteenth century.[6] There was another wave in from the early to the late twentieth century. It is estimated that over 125,000 Lebanese immigrated to Colombia from 1900 to 1980.[7]
Many Lebanese settled in the Caribbean region of Colombia, particularly in the cities of Cartagena, Santa Marta, Lorica, San Andrés (island), Fundación, Aracataca, Ayapel, Calamar, Ciénaga, Cereté, Montería, Valledupar, Sincelejo and Barranquilla, near the basin of the Magdalena River. The Lebanese subsequently expanded to other cities and by 1945 there were Lebanese living in Ocaña, Cúcuta, Barrancabermeja, Ibagué, Girardot, Honda, Tunja, Villavicencio, Pereira, Soatá, Neiva, Cali, Buga, Chaparral and Chinácota. The six major hubs of Lebanese population were present in Barranquilla, Cartagena, Bucaramanga, Bogotá, and Cali. The number of immigrants entering the country vary from 10,000 to 30,000 in 1945.[6] Some of these immigrants were Christians and others were Muslims.[5]
The vast majority of Lebanese Colombians are Catholics. However, in the 1940s another wave of Lebanese immigrants came to Colombia, settling in the town of Maicao, Guajira in northern Colombia. These immigrants were mostly Muslims and were attracted by the thriving commerce of the town, which was benefiting from the neighboring Venezuelan oil bonanza and the usual contraband of goods that flowed through the Guajira Peninsula.[8]
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[edit]- ↑ iLoubnan (2009). "Geographical distribution of Lebanese diaspora". Ya Libnan. Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ↑ Colombia awakens to the Arab world. Brazil-Arab New Agency, 21 July 2009. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
- ↑ "Diáspora libanesa se solidariza y reúne fondos para Beirut". La Jornada (in Spanish). AFP. 6 August 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ "La diáspora libanesa se moviliza a ayudar tras explosión". SWI swissinfo.ch (in Spanish). AFP. 6 August 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- 1 2 Louise Fawcett De Posada; Eduardo Posada-Carbó (1992). "En la tierra de las oportunidades: Los sirio-libaneses en Colombia" [In the land of opportunity: The Syrian-Lebanese in Colombia]. Cultural and Bibliographical Bulletin (in Spanish). XXIX (29). Archived from the original on 25 October 2006. Retrieved 30 August 2007.
- 1 2 S.A.S, Editorial La República (26 April 2022). "Colombia y Medio Oriente". Diario La República (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 November 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
- ↑ Devis-Amaya, Esteban (1 May 2014). "The construction of identity and community - performing ethnicity: who are the Colombian-Lebanese?". eprints.soton.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 17 June 2026. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ Diego Andrés Rosselli Cock (15 December 2005). "La comunidad musulmana de Maicao (Colombia)" [The Muslim Community of Maicao (Colombia)] (in Spanish). webislam.com. Archived from the original on 26 June 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
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