Portuguese Venezuelans (or Luso-Venezuelans) are

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-born citizens with

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n citizenship or Venezuelan-born citizens of Portuguese ancestry or citizenship. Mostly located in

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in th ...

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and

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, also

Barquisimeto Barquisimeto (; guc, Watkisimeeta) is a city in Venezuela. It is the capital of the state of Lara and head of Iribarren Municipality. It is an important urban, industrial, commercial and transportation center of the country, recognized as the f ...

, the Portuguese community of Venezuela are among the largest ethnic groups in the country. The State of Portuguesa takes its name from the

Portuguesa River The Portuguesa River (Spanish: ''Río Portuguesa'', also ''Río la Portuguesa'', ''Río de la Portuguesa'') is a river of Venezuela. It is part of the Orinoco River basin, and is a tributary of the Apure River (which is, in turn, a tributary of the ...

, in which a Portuguese women is said to have drowned. Portuguese arrived to Venezuela in the early and middle 20th century, as immigrants, mostly from

Madeira Island Madeira is a Portuguese island, and is the largest and most populous of the Madeira Archipelago. It has an area of , including Ilhéu de Agostinho, Ilhéu de São Lourenço, Ilhéu Mole (northwest). As of 2011, Madeira had a total population of ...

. Venezuela has the second largest Portuguese diaspora in America, after Brazil. There is strong interest among a large segment of the Portuguese in Venezuela to preserve the culture and familial bond with the old country

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, while they have been important in the development of Venezuela holding a substantial number of businesses in the retail trade. The Portuguese language in Venezuela influences Venezuelan Spanish with some neologisms and loanwords.

Notable Portuguese Venezuelans

* Danny Alves, footballer * Nico Castel, lyric singer *

Vanessa Gonçalves Vanessa Andrea Gonçalves Gomes (born February 10, 1986) is a yoga teacher, dentist, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Venezuela 2010. She represented Venezuela at Miss Universe 2011 and placed in the Top 16. Daughter of ...

Miss Venezuela 2010 Miss Venezuela 2010 was the 57th edition of the Miss Venezuela pageant held on October 28, 2010 at the Palacio de Eventos de Venezuela in Maracaibo, Venezuela. At the end of the event, outgoing titleholder Marelisa Gibson crowned Vanessa Gonça ...

* Laura Gonçalves, Miss Portugal 2011 * Marjorie de Sousa, model and actress *

Osmel Sousa Osmel Ricardo Souza Mancilla (born 26 September 1946) is a Cuban-Venezuelan beauty pageant entrepreneur, and the former president of the Miss Venezuela Organization. Prominently known for his excellence in both pageantry and advertising, Sousa ...

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president (''born in Cuba'') * Fernando de Ornelas, former footballer *

Leonardo Jardim José Leonardo Nunes Alves Sousa Jardim (; born 1 August 1974) is a Portuguese football manager, currently in charge of Emirati club Shabab Al Ahli. He started working at the professional level at the age of 35, initially with Camacha and Cha ...

, football manager * Lance dos Ramos, actor, model and animator * Kimberly dos Ramos, actress, model and singer * Catherine Joy Perry, Competes as Lana in WWE - professional wrestling valet, actress, model and singer (''born in

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'') *

La Divaza Pedro Luis Joao Figueira Álvarez (born 18 June 1998), known as La Divaza, is a Venezuelan and Mexican YouTuber and singer. La Divaza is the second YouTuber from Venezuela to reach one million subscribers after Dross. Biography He was born i ...

, Internet personality

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European Venezuelan

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Notable Portuguese Venezuelans

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