Many South Americans were killed by Spanish I think. If many were killed in North America, alot had to be killed in South America too.
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It might be surprising, but the answer is Columbia. When the Spanish settled Columbia, they took advantage of the existing population of natives as they did in every other nation of Central and South American they controlled. Local natives, although much more suseptible to European pathogens and suffering from a higher mortality rate died out quickly, but the number of Columbians (in the millions to hundreds of millions) who died in slavery to the Spanish far exceeded logistically the number of Africans who could have been brought over on ships.
most people in Latin America are Roman Catholic
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The American Indians now are more correctly called, "American aboriginals" or "American natives".
Some Hispanics are considered part of the caucasion race. You do have many American Indians from South, Central and North America that speak Spanish as hispanic is not actually a race.