What does Iberian descent mean?

This means that people who live in Portugal, Spain, France, Morocco, Italy, and Algeria can, and usually do, show strong genetic links to the Iberian Peninsula. People who are native to the Iberian Peninsula DNA region are generally very admixed as well, showing only about 51\% Iberian DNA, on average.

What does it mean to be of Iberian descent?

What percent of Puerto Rico is Hispanic?

98.2\%
98.2\% of the people in Puerto Rico are hispanic (3.13M people). The following chart shows the 7 races represented in Puerto Rico as a share of the total population.

Who are the Puerto Ricans?

Before I go through the breakdown let me give you a quick history of Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans are a make-up of several different ethnicities, specifically Spanish, African, Taino (Puerto Rico’s Natives) and Morrocan. We will all have different percentages of these ethnicities but, we will share most if not all of them.

What is the modern identity of Puerto Rico?

Modern identity. Even after the attempted assimilation of Puerto Rico into the United States in the early 20th century, the majority of the people of Puerto Rico feel pride in their nationality as “Puerto Ricans”, regardless of the individual’s particular racial, ethnic, political, or economic background.

Who lived in Puerto Rico before the Spanish colonized the island?

Before the Spanish colonized Puerto Rico the island was inhabited by the native Taínos which are the Arawak people who migrated from South America to the Carribean. Unfortunately, with the arrival of the Spanish, the Taíno population went from the thousands to less than 500 due to infections diseases, warfare and enslavement.

Why do people from the Iberian Peninsula have similar DNA profiles?

The people native to the Iberian Peninsula have similar DNA profiles from other nearby reasons like France, Morocco, Algeria and Italy. According to AncestryDNA, approximately 51\% of the typical native’s DNA comes from this region. When compared to the typical native which shares 51\% of the same DNA I have 26\%.