The religion is an important cultural factor in the life of a lot of countries of Latin America.
The most latin american population are Catholic, being th 60% in countries like Argentina or Brazil.
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The Catholicism were intriduced by the spanish conquerors, they forced the original residents to abandoned their pre-hispanic cultures.
After the Independence of Spain, the population had a way of catholicism joined with ancestors workships. This type of catholicism is found between the middle american and andean natives and the caribbean and brazilian Afro-american people.
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Protestantism is the biggest no catholic minority, close to 20%.
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Inside other believes, we can underline the next: the native religions, the Buddhism, the Judaism, Islam, the Mormonism or the SanterÃa.
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