![]() This trend probably started for the first time in the coastal towns of Connecticut and New York. īy the early 1990s, many Colombians left the metropolitan centers and settled in the suburbs to escape crime and high product prices in the city. The area also attracted wealthy Colombians, who settled there for reasons as diverse as educational, medical or economics. The first Colombians immigrating to the city lived in Little Havana, from where they established commercial relations between Miami and Latin America. Since the 1980s, many Colombians have immigrated to Miami (especially in its suburbs, such as Doral, Kendall, and Hialeah, and the Weston suburb of Fort Lauderdale). Smaller communities formed in Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. Despite the promulgation of many laws against immigration, the number of Colombians that immigrated to the United States did not stop growing. Therefore, the number of undocumented Colombian immigrants increased: from 250,000 to 350,000 people in the mid-1970s. Most Colombians who arrived after the mid-1960s wanted to stay in the United States for a specific time period. The growth of the Colombian population was slow until 1940, when there was an increase in Colombian immigration to New York. Most immigrants settled in Manhattan for many years until the late 1970s when they started to migrate to Jackson Heights, a middle-class neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City, that has good housing, schools and churches. ![]() The first community of Colombian origin was formed after World War I, through the arrival of several hundred professionals (nurses, accountants, laboratory technicians, pharmacists, and bilingual secretaries) that established themselves in New York City later on, more people were added to the community when Colombian students decided to stay in the U.S. census included all the South Americans that lived in the United States in the "other Latinos" category. However, the Colombian presence in the United States would not be known with certainty since the U.S. The first Colombian immigrants who settled in the United States likely arrived in the 1800s. Florida (916,247) has the highest concentration of Colombian Americans in the United States, followed by New York (461,128), New Jersey (311,277), Texas (148,824) and California (134,929). Many communities throughout the United States have significant Colombian American populations. ![]() Colombian Americans are the sixth-largest Latin American group and the largest South American Latino group in the United States. The word may refer to someone born in the United States of full or partial Colombian descent or to someone who has immigrated to the United States from Colombia. Colombian Americans ( Spanish: Colomboestadounidenses), are Americans who trace their ancestry to Colombia. ![]()
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