Cantabrian people

Cantabrians
*Cántabros*
Total population
	593,121 (Cantabria 2011)
Regions with significant populations
	In Spain: Cantabria; Madrid, Biscay, Asturias, Barcelona. Diaspora
Mexico	8,131
Argentina	3,384
France	2,384
Cuba	1,899
Venezuela	1,490
Germany	1,283
United States	1,190
Other countries	3,099
Languages
	Castilian, Cantabrian.
Religion
	Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
	other Spaniards (Asturians, Galicians, Leonese, Castilians)

The Cantabrians (Cantabrian and Spanish: cántabros) are an ethnic group who inhabit the autonomous community of Cantabria, in northern Spain.^[3] Sometimes they are referred to as "montañeses" (meaning Highlanders). The traditional dialects in this region, known as Cantabru or Montañés, are related to the Astur-Leonese languages.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Elecciones a Cortes Generales de 20 de noviembre de 2011
^ Interactivo: Creencias y prácticas religiosas en España
^ "Even today, Cantabrians (the Pasiego included, Lebaniegos excluded), at the North of Spain, seem to be a genetically well differentiated community, as deduced from uniparental and autosomal markers, perhaps to a higher degree than their neighbours, the Basques". http://grupos.unican.es/acanto/aep/bolpas/Ann-Hum-Genet.pdf Archived 2007-04-04 at the Wayback Machine.