Brazilians of Spanish descent
Spanish Brazilians are Brazilian people of full or partial Spanish ancestry.
Spanish immigration was the third largest among immigrant groups in Brazil; about 750,000 immigrants entered Brazil from Spanish ports. How mamy Spaniards came to Brazil before independence are unknown. Brazilian censuses do not research "ethnic origins" or ancestry, which makes it very difficult to give accurate numbers of Brazilians of Spanish descent. Brazilians of Spanish descent can be estimated as being 15 million people or 20 million according to the Spanish government.
History
Colonial Brazil
About more than half of modern Brazil's territory being attributed to Spain by the treaty of Tordesilla, Spain was unable to settle that region.