Dutch Chileans

{{short description|People with heritage from Chile and the Netherlands}} {{Refimprove|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox ethnic group | group = Dutch Chileans<br>{{lang|es|Chileno-neerlandeses}}<br/>{{lang|nl|Nederlandse Chilenen}} | population = 50,000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cstandt.com/content/dutch-immigration |title=Dutch Immigration |accessdate=24 September 2025 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130818221629/http://www.cstandt.com/content/dutch-immigration |archive-date=18 August 2013 |date=15 February 2009}}</ref> | popplace = Frutillar, Valparaíso, Concepcion, Viña del Mar, Santiago, and the highest percentage of Dutch descent lives in Puerto Varas{{cn|date=April 2025}} | langs = Chilean Spanish, English language, Dutch language, German language | rels = mostly Roman Catholicism, but also Reformed Protestantism{{cn|date=April 2025}} | related = Dutch people, Dutch Argentines, Dutch Brazilians, Dutch diaspora }} '''Dutch Chileans''' ({{langx|es|Chileno-neerlandeses}}; {{langx|nl|Nederlandse Chilenen}}) are Chilean people of Dutch descent.

== Background == In 1600, the Chilean city of Valdivia was conquered by Dutch pirate Sebastian de Cordes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/01338331911915277755802/p0000001.htm|title=Colonial Traditions|last=Ovando|first=Carlos|date=|website=Cervantes Virtual|language=Spanish|access-date=August 29, 2017}}</ref> He left the city after a few months. Four decades later, in 1642, the VOC and the WIC sent a fleet of ships to Chile to take control of Valdivia and its Spanish gold mines.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.valdiviachile.com/ciudad/descubre-valdivia/historia-valdivia.htm |title=VALDIVIA CHILE | el Portal web de Valdivia descubre valdivia historia valdivia |accessdate=2010-09-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124210333/http://www.valdiviachile.com/ciudad/descubre-valdivia/historia-valdivia.htm |archivedate=2010-01-24 }} </ref> The expedition was conducted by Hendrik Brouwer, a Dutch general. In 1643 Brouwer conquered the Chiloé Archipelago and Valdivia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-94517.html|title=Colonization Attempt|last=|first=|date=|website=Chilean Memory|language=Spanish|access-date=August 29, 2017}}</ref> After Brouwer died on 7 August 1643, vice-general Elias Herckmans took control. (The New Flanders Colony).

==Dutch colonization in Chile== The second emigration from the Netherlands to Chile occurred in 1895. A dozen Dutch families settled in Chile between 1895 and 1897, particularly in Mechaico, Huillinco and Chacao. Egbert Hageman arrived in Chile<ref>{{cite web|url=http://members.tripod.com/jans_chile.cl/hageman.htm|title=A principios del siglo XX|website=Members.tripod.com|accessdate=30 August 2017}}</ref> with his family, on 14 April 1896, settling in Rio Gato, near Puerto Montt. The Wennekool family inaugurated the Dutch colonization of Villarrica.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://members.tripod.com/jans_chile.cl/holandeses1.htm|title=A principios del siglo XX|website=Members.tripod.com|accessdate=30 August 2017}}</ref>

In the early twentieth century, a large group of Dutch people arrived in Chile from South Africa. These migrants, after a long stay in African camps, were presented with the opportunity to emigrate to Chile with the help of the Chilean government.{{cn|date=April 2025}}

On 4 May 1903, a group of over 200 Dutch sailed on the Pacific Steam Navigation Company steamship ''Oropesa'' from La Rochelle (La Pallice) in France. The majority had been born in the Netherlands (35% from North Holland and South Holland, 13% from North Brabant, 9% from Zeeland and an equal number of Gelderland). Only a dozen children had been born in South Africa. On June 5, they arrived by train to the city of Pitrufquén.{{cn|date=April 2025}}

Another group of Dutchmen arrived shortly after to Talcahuano, in the ''Oravi'' and the ''Orissa''. The Netherlands colony in Donguil was christened "New Transvaal Colony". More than 500 Dutch families moved there. The last group of Boers arrived between 7 February 1907 and February 18, 1909.{{cn|date=April 2025}}

Some 50,000 descendants remain, mostly located in Malleco, Gorbea, Pitrufquén, Faja Maisan and around Temuco.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cstandt.com/content/dutch-immigration |title=Dutch Immigration | Computer Systems, Telecommunications, and Technology |accessdate=2016-02-05 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130818221629/http://www.cstandt.com/content/dutch-immigration |archivedate=2013-08-18 }}</ref>

==Notable Dutch Chileans== {{Unsourced|section|date=May 2025}} * Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, Chilean Politician * Alberto van Klaveren, Dutch-born Chilean diplomat * Shmuel Szteinhendler, rabbi (Regional Director of Masorti Olami Latin America) * Peter Mociulski von Remenyk, Rock and roll musician * Denisse van Lamoen, a Chilean archer * Felipe van de Wyngard, Chilean triathlete *Cristobal Tapia De Veer, film and television score composer

==See also== {{portal|Netherlands|Chile}} * German Chileans * British Chileans * French Chileans

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://members.tripod.com/jans_chile.cl/holandeses1.htm Netherlands in Chile.]

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