The first people to rush to the gold fields, beginning in the spring of 1848, were the residents of California themselves — primarily agriculturally oriented Americans and Europeans living in Northern California, along with Native Americans and some Californios ( Spanish-speaking Californians ).

Bachata, merengue and salsa are now equally popular among Spanish-speaking Caribbean people.

In 2006 11. 1 % of people in Navarre were Basque speakers, 7. 6 % were passive speakers and 81. 3 % were Spanish-speaking monolinguals, an increase from 9. 5 % Basque speakers in 1991.

In Spain and in most Spanish-speaking countries, the practice is for people to have two surnames.

" This pan-Latino association of salsa stems from what Felix Padilla labels a ' Latinizing ' process that occurred in the 1960s and was consciously marketed by Fania Records: ' To Fania, the Latinizing of salsa came to mean homogenizing the product, presenting an all-embracing Pan-American or Latino sound with which the people from all of Latin America and Spanish-speaking communities in the United States could identity and purchase.

* Meaning “ crazy, insane, weird, wild ”, is the nickname of several people in Spanish-speaking countries, often because of strange behaviour:

Per the 1850 U. S. census, fewer than 16, 000 Texans were of Mexican descent, and nearly all were Spanish-speaking people ( both Mexicans and non-Spanish European settlers who include German Texan ) who were outnumbered ( six-to-one ) by English-speaking settlers ( both Americans and other immigrant Europeans ).

In Spanish-speaking Latin America, this honorific is usually used with people of older age.

Californio ( historic and regional Spanish for " Californian ") is a term used to identify a Spanish-speaking, mostly Roman Catholic people, or of Latin American descent, regardless of race, born in California from the first Spanish colonies established by the Portolá expedition in 1769 to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, in which Mexico ceded California to the United States.

El Centro Cultural Hispano was founded in 1975 to serve the needs of Spanish-speaking people throughout the Quad City area.

After the Spanish conquest, the Tzotzil were for centuries exploited as laborers, first by the Spaniards and then by the Ladinos ( urban Spanish-speaking people of Spanish and native descent ) who own most of the land and dominate commerce.

He retained a knowledge of and friendship with Spanish-speaking people his entire life.

The Missionary Language School offers an intensive, nine-month program for career missionaries preparing to minister to Spanish-speaking people.

A cacerolazo, cacerolada or casserole is a form of popular protest practised in certain Spanish-speaking countries – in particular Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Spain – and most recently English-speaking countries which consists in a group of people creating noise by banging pots, pans, and other utensils in order to call for attention.

One of Frank Waters ’ s most popular novels, " People of the Valley " takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change.

Pelotas can have another meaning when it comes to nudity. Depends on some people in the Spanish-speaking community, it could be considered offensive ,( andar en pelotas ), which means being completely naked.

In recent years there has been substantial internal migration by Spanish-speaking mestizo people from Pacific Nicaragua, and, increasingly, by Miskito people from the Caribbean mainland around Puerto Cabezas.

In the summer of 1857, a party of Spanish-speaking gold seekers from New Mexico worked a placer deposit along the South Platte River about 5 miles ( 8 kilometers ) above Cherry Creek in what is today Denver.

Military bands in Germany's Bundeswehr today only comprise of a Military band and a Corps of Drums ( Austrian bands do not ) while Military bands in Chile have the same instrumentation with the addition of Sousaphones and Bugles on the Corps of Drums, the same with those military bands from the Spanish-speaking South American countries, with a few unique additions.

In the summer of 1857, a party of Spanish-speaking gold seekers from the New Mexico Territory worked a placer deposit along the South Platte River about above Cherry Creek ( in what is today the Overland Park neighborhood of Denver.

" The AP Stylebook's recommended usage of Latino includes not only persons of Spanish-speaking ancestry, but also more generally includes persons " from -- or whose ancestors were from --.

" The Stylebook definition of Latino includes not only persons of Spanish-speaking ancestry, but also more generally includes persons " from -- or whose ancestors were from --.

It was also then that the current Spanish-speaking, Catholic and Westernized Mexican culture was born.

Conservative legislators also opposed requiring states with large Spanish-speaking populations to provide bilingual ballots.

Paraguay is a bilingual country and most of its Spanish-speaking population also speaks a form of Guaraní.

The American version was also aired in Australia in 1969, and in Spanish-speaking countries as Los tres espaciales.

The series is also known to have been dubbed in Spanish and broadcast in Spanish-speaking countries as Los tres espaciales.

During the times of independent south Texas, the term also applied to Spanish-speaking Texans and Hispanicized Germans and other Europeans.

Likewise the migration of Spanish-speaking Nicaraguans also began as a result of political instability during the end of the 1970s and the 1980s.

Spanish-speaking Mexican cowboys ( paniolos ), were particularly influential immigrants in the field of music, introducing string instruments such as the guitar and possibly also the technique of falsetto singing, while Portuguese immigrants brought the ukulele-like braguinha.

The term " deputy " may be used to refer to any member of a legislative body or chamber ; this usage is particularly common in those French-and Spanish-speaking countries whose parliaments or legislative chambers refer to themselves as " national assemblies "; the term is also used by Portugal's Assembly of the Republic, and often in Ireland as a form of address when referring to members of Dáil Éireann.

El Coco, ( also El Cuco and Cucuy, sometimes called El Bolo ) is a monster common to many Spanish-speaking countries.

However, the term El Coco is also used in Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, such as Colombia, Peru, Mexico, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay, although there it is more usually called El Cuco, as in Puerto Rico, Chile and Argentina.

It is also known as caraille or carilley on Trinidad and Tobago, carilla in Guyana, cundeamor is a small variety very common in Puerto Rico ( actually is the Momordica balsamina ), " asorosi " or assorosie " in Haiti, and cerasee or cerasse in Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean, including parts of South America ( although is known in Portuguese as melão de São Caetano-and Spanish-speaking areas, however is known by the Okinawan or Japanese names in others regions ).

Hyde, Jackson, and Egleston Squares have significant Spanish-speaking populations mainly from the Dominican Republic, but also from Puerto Rico and Cuba.

The same occurs between speakers of Dutch and Afrikaans and to a lesser degree between speakers of Italian and Spanish, Portuguese and Spanish ( and their respective variants ), where it is also possible to understand what the other person is saying as long as it is said slowly ; ( as such between residents of Spain and Portugal as well as between residents of Brazil and neighboring Spanish-speaking countries ).

This collection was also released in Spanish-speaking countries such as Mi Amor al eStara, presenting a slightly different tracklist.

Since 2000, use of the Balanced Scorecard, its derivatives ( e. g., Performance Prism ), and other similar tools ( e. g., Results Based Management ) has also become common in the Middle East, Asia and Spanish-speaking countries.

The plant is also called couve in Brazil, couve-galega or " couve portuguesa " ( among several other names ) in Portugal, kovi or kobi in Cape Verde, berza in Spanish-speaking countries, raštika in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia and raštan in Montenegro and Serbia.

This Harlem connection was also shared by the closely parallel development of negrismo in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and it is likely that there were many influences between the movements, which differed in language but were in many ways united in purpose.

" Castro ", also derived from " Castrum ", is a common Spanish family name, as well as a place name in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, Italy and the Balkan, either by itself or in various compounds such as Argyrocastro ( see Castro ).

The term " caracol " has also been deemed offensive by native Islanders and the term is only used by Spanish-speaking " mainland " Hondurans who have a long standing rivalry with native Bay Islanders because of their differences in culture, language, beliefs and ideals.

The word son ( literally meaning ' sound ' in Spanish ) has also come to be used for other traditional rural musical styles of Spanish-speaking countries.

A rosé ( From French: rosé, also known as rosado in Spanish-speaking countries or rosato in Italy ) is a type of wine that has some of the color typical of a red wine, but only enough to turn it pink.