WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Peninsulares were defined as those of pure blood and white Spanish descent who lived in the colonies but had been born in Spain, on the Iberian Peninsula. They immigrated to the colonies after birth and held the most important positions in colonial government.

Detailed explanation-2: -peninsulares) was a Spaniard born in Spain residing in the New World, Spanish East Indies, or Spanish Guinea. Nowadays, the word peninsulares makes reference to Peninsular Spain and in contrast to the “islanders” (isleños), from the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands or the territories of Ceuta and Melilla.

Detailed explanation-3: -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. Spaniards born in the Spanish Philippines are called insulares.

Detailed explanation-4: -In Spanish colonial times criollo referred to a full-blooded Spaniard born in the Spanish colonies in Asia and the Americas. It was a term mostly used to differentiate from the peninsulares (full-blooded Spaniards born in Spain) and mestizos (persons of both Spanish and Native American or Asian ancestry).