An Italian Argentine (Spanish and Italian: italo-argentino) is a person born in Argentina of Italian ancestry. It is estimated up to 25 million Argentines have some degree of Italian descent (up to 60% of the total population). Italians began arriving to Argentina in great numbers from 1857 to 1940, totaling 44.9% of the entire immigrant population; more than from any other country (including Spain at 31.5%), and this migratory flow continued to the 1960s, with Italy also having the most emigrants to Argentina for the previous three decades (1980 � 2000). Because of this, Italian descent is likely the largest ethnic heritage of Argentina's population, with about 20 million descendants.
Italian settlement in Argentina, along with Spanish settlement, formed the backbone of today's Argentine society. Argentine culture has significant connections to Italian culture, also in terms of language, customs and traditions.
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