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effort was put into this. There were a
few relevant events whose social
relevance was limited or non-existent
outside the intimate circle of people
already aware of and committed to the
process. Even so, concrete results of the
Afro-descendant
population
were
obtained, but they were not published
with the census’s general results, but
later, in 2012. Let us focus on the
number of people polled, their place of
residence and birth. The rest of the
results can be found on the INDEC web
page and in the Census’s last, two
volumes. 149,493 people were polled
(76,054 men and 73,429 women), out of
a total population of 40,117,096. This
comes to 0.37%, way below the usual 2
to 4%, or the 2,000,000 people that some
of the Afro-activists and academics
inspired by the Pilot Study’s national
projects sustained. The greatest quantity
of them lives in the Province of Buenos
Aires (38.6%, which divides into 25.2%
in the municipalities of Greater Buenos
Aires, and 13.4% in the rest), the
autonomous City of Buenos Aires
(10.5%), Entre Ríos (8.5%), Santa Fe
(6.4%), and Cordoba (6.3%). The rest
reside in Mendoza (3.2%) and 0.4% in
La Pampa, Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica
and South Atlantic Islands. 92% of them
are Afro-Argentines and 8% are
foreigners, among them 84.9% of them
Afro-Latin Americans, 17.7% of them
Afro-Uruguayans.
The Misibamba Association’s SelfManaged Census

A need to be able to rely on reliable
statistics regarding today’s Afr