Portuguese Argentines are Argentines of Portuguese descent or a Portugal-born person who resides in Argentina. Portuguese Argentines has always been a small group in Argentina. There are some 30,000 people of Portuguese ancestry in Argentina, of whom 14,946 hold Portuguese citizenship. History Portuguese immigration has been comparatively small in Argentina due to a linguistic preference for neighbouring Brazil. However, the Portuguese were the largest foreign group in the last years of the Viceroyalty. In 1850, there were sailors and petty traders from Lisbon and Porto; they were later joined by artisans, laborers, and farm workers. The Portuguese Club, in the neighborhood of Isidro Casanova, recognizes the origins of the migration of a group of families during the military dictatorship of Antonio Oliveira Salazar (1932-1974) installed as quinteros, hornero and merchants in the metropolitan area, notably in La Matanza party. The Portuguese were after the Spanish the largest group before 1816 and continued arriving throughout the 19th century. A large proportion settled in the interior of the country, but Buenos Aires City and Province were the main places of settlement. There already were many men who arrived in Lisbon, Porto, and coastal regions of Portugal, which focused particularly on the parishes of South by deploying multiple occupations, but mainly the naval: sailors, stevedores, and porters. In the 1970s, they began organizing themselves ethnically, and community life (mutual, club, newspaper) would be more active in the following decades. To Salliqueló came an important group from a settlement of 1905. Prior to 1975, Cape Verdean immigrants were registered as Portuguese immigrants from the overseas province of Portuguese Cape Verde. Demography An important Portuguese community was established in Buenos Aires. Have also been established in Greater Buenos Aires (in the south, in Villa Elisa, La Plata, Ezeiza and in Esteban Echeverría Partido) and also in the West: Isidro Casanova, González Catán ( La Matanza Partido), Pontevedra, Libertad and Olavarría. In addition, communities in Comodoro Rivadavia, Mendoza and Oberá (where the community has a ballet called Corazón Luso - in English: Luso Heart). Portuguese Clubs Around the 1970s started based on La Matanza clubs of the foreign communities likely as a form of defense against the threat of the loss of the important elements of culture itself. The members of the Portuguese community participated in this process of creating of an area of cultural heritage. Are 23 Portuguese clubs that exist in Argentina and Isidro