The U.S. Hispanic Heritage

About half the present U.S. territory was originally explored and colonized by Spaniards, and subsequently by Mexicans half Spanish, half American Indians. Today, more than 40 million Spanish speaking citizens live in the U.S. They make up more than one half the Catholic population of the country. Apart from the original Spanish Americans, they came during recent decades from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central America, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, in other words, from all over Spanish speaking America.