Hispanic America is the group formed by the countries of the American continent that have Spanish as their official language . It is a group of nineteen nations that have a total of about 400 million inhabitants .
Beyond the use of Spanish, other languages are also spoken in Latin America , such as Aymara, Guaraní, Mapudungún and Quechua . The most widespread religion in the region, meanwhile, is Christianity .
It is important to establish differences between Latin America , Latin America and Latin America , even though these concepts are sometimes used as synonyms. Hispanic American countries, as we already said, are characterized by speaking Spanish. The notion of Ibero-America also adds those where Portuguese is spoken. Another definition of Ibero-America refers to the former colonies of Spain and Portugal . Latin America , finally, refers to all the American States whose culture and languages are of Latin origin.
The most populated country in Latin America is Mexico , with more than 121 million inhabitants . They are followed by Colombia , Argentina , Peru , Venezuela , Chile , Guatemala and Ecuador , in that order .
Among the most populated cities in Latin America we have to highlight some such as the following:
-Mexico City, which has 22,500,000 million inhabitants.
-Lima, which belongs to Peru and has just over 12 million citizens.
-Bogotá, in Colombia, whose metropolitan area has 9,300,000 inhabitants.
-Caracas, capital of Venezuela, which has 7,493,000 inhabitants.
-Santiago, Chile, which has 6,950,000 citizens.
-Guadalajara, Mexico, which has 4,950,000 inhabitants.
Compared to other political entities, Latin America has more inhabitants than the United States and Brazil , for example, although less than the European Union ( EU ).
Another interesting fact about Latin America is that it is the area of the world that is considered to produce the most food on the entire planet, according to figures managed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
The Latin American countries with the best Human Development Index are Chile , Puerto Rico , Argentina and Uruguay . At the other extreme are Honduras , Guatemala , Nicaragua and Bolivia .
On a cultural level, specifically literary, Latin America has had and has illustrious figures who have achieved enormous international recognition. We are referring to writers of the stature of Gabriel García Márquez, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982; Pablo Neruda, who achieved the same literary recognition in 1971; the Chilean Isabel Allende, who is the most read living writer in the Spanish language; the author Gabriela Mistral, who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, which she obtained in 1945; or the Mexican author Octavio Paz, who also won the aforementioned award in 1990.
Other reference authors in this sense are Roberto Bolaño, Mario Benedetti, Carlos Fuentes, Miguel Asturias, Jorge Amado, Mario Vargas Llosa or Juan Carlos Onetti.
Hispanoamérica , finally, is the name of a neighborhood that belongs to the district of Chamartín , in the Spanish city of Madrid . In the southwestern area of Latin America is the famous Santiago Bernabéu stadium.