USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In Spanish colonies, an español criollo was an ethnic Spaniard who had been born in the colonies, as opposed to an español peninsular born in Spain.

Detailed explanation-2: -Criollo.In New Spain a criollo was a person born in the New World to Spanish-born parents. A criollo, although legally equal to a peninsular, was treated differently with regard to royal appointments to high colonial offices in administration, the military, and the church.

Detailed explanation-3: -peninsular, Spanish Peninsular, plural Peninsulares, also called Gachupín, or Chapetón, any of the colonial residents of Latin America from the 16th through the early 19th centuries who had been born in Spain.

Detailed explanation-4: -Definition of Peninsulares The peninsulares were the group of people who came directly from the Iberian Peninsula in Spain to the colonies in the Americas.