{{Refimprove|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox ethnic group |group = Austrian Argentines |regions = |langs = {{hlist|Rioplatense Spanish| Austrian German}} |rels = {{hlist|Christianity|Judaism}} |related= {{hlist|German Argentines|Swiss Argentines|Luxembourgian Argentines}} }} '''Austrian Argentines''' are Argentine citizens of Austrian descent or Austrian-born people who emigrated to Argentina. Many Austrian descendants in Argentina arrived in the country from other parts of Europe when Austria was a unified kingdom with Hungary.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
Austrian immigration has been linked to other migratory flows towards the South American country as the German and Swiss immigration waves, among others.{{cn|date=May 2025}} {{multiple image|perrow=2 | image1 = Hildabernard.jpg|width1=70| caption1 = Hilda Bernard | image2 = HelmutyCristina.jpeg|width2=150| caption2 = Helmut Ditsch | image3 = |width3=110| caption3 = Max Glücksmann | image4 = Mariette_Lydis_(1936).jpg|width4=110| caption4 = Mariette Lydis }} == History == {{Refimprove|section|date=April 2026}} [[File:Colectividades Rosario 2006 Austria.jpg|thumb|Austrian Argentine community of Rosario, Santa Fe during the National Festival of Communities in 2006.]] Austrian immigrants who came to Argentina did during the two great migratory waves, i.e., about the First and Second World War. The main settlement sites were Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Misiones; in the south, cities like San Carlos de Bariloche and San Martín de los Andes were among the main destinations for Austrians. The amount has never exactly been relieved and there are mostly estimates. In the early thirties, there were approximately 240,000 German-speaking people of whom 45,000 resided in Buenos Aires, and since about 9,000 were of Austrian descent. These figures are similar to those recorded in the Austrian Embassy, approximately 7,000 people of Austrian descent in Buenos Aires, considering the probability of being greater. Since the mid-nineteenth century there had been established a German-speaking colony in the neighbourhood of Belgrano, Buenos Aires. The Austrian and Swiss residents in Buenos Aires were integrated into this colony by the language and cultural affinity in general. This neighbourhood was very attractive to new immigrants since it already had adequate infrastructure, as churches, cafes and bakeries in German families that had arisen due to the former colony.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/areas/secretaria_gral/colectividades/?col=3 |author=Observatorio de Colectividades - Gobierno de Buenos Aires |title=Colectividad austríaca |language=Spanish |accessdate=23 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301104025/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/areas/secretaria_gral/colectividades/?col=3 |archivedate=1 March 2014 }}</ref> Argentina is, ethnographically, the second Latin American country with the largest number of immigrants and descendants of Austrian immigrants after Brazil (being ahead of Uruguay in third) with Córdoba as the seat of the main Austrian community of Argentina, which is the province with the largest immigrant population of German and Austrian descent in the country.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
== Organisations == Among the Austrian institutions in the country are: the Austrian-Argentine Association<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.argentino-austriaca.org/ |title=Asociación Argentino Austríaca |author=Austrian-Argentines |accessdate=23 February 2014}}</ref> (member of the European Club), the San Isidro Austria Club,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.clubaustria.com.ar/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120629071710/http://www.clubaustria.com.ar/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 29, 2012 |title=Club Austria |author=clubaustria.com.ar |accessdate=23 February 2014 }}</ref> the Austrian Benevolent Society,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/areas/secretaria_gral/colectividades/?secInterna=19&col=3 |author=Vida Institucional. Observatorio de Colectividades |title=Colectividad Austríaca |accessdate=23 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301103225/http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/areas/secretaria_gral/colectividades/?secInterna=19&col=3 |archivedate=1 March 2014 }}</ref> the Austrian-Argentine Chamber of Commerce, the House of Austria in Rosario and the Austrian-Argentine Association of Bariloche.
== Austrian settlements in Argentina == [[File:Villa General Belgrano.jpg|thumb|Villa General Belgrano in Córdoba was a destination for Austrian immigrants along with Germans, Swiss and Italians.]] Some of the settlement areas along the last century were:
=== Chaco === * Resistencia * Quitilipi
=== Córdoba === * Villa General Belgrano * Colonia Tirolesa
=== Entre Ríos === * San Benito
=== Formosa === * Colonia Formosa
=== Misiones === * Eldorado<ref>[http://www.primeraedicionweb.com.ar/nota/suplemento/5773/austriacos-en-eldorado.html Austríacos en Eldorado. diario Primera Edicion] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228041247/http://www.primeraedicionweb.com.ar/nota/suplemento/5773/austriacos-en-eldorado.html |date=February 28, 2014 }}</ref>
=== Río Negro === * Villa Regina
=== Santa Fe === * Avellaneda == See also == {{Portal|Austria|Argentina}} *Argentina–Austria relations *Argentines of European descent *German Argentine *Italian Argentines *Swiss Argentines
== References == {{reflist}}
{{Austrian diaspora}} {{European Argentine}} {{Immigration to Argentina}} {{Portal bar|Argentina|Austria}} * Argentina Austrian