Colombus day! (dia de la raza)

October 12 is celebrated in most Latin American countries of the Race Day. This date recalls the sighting of land for the sailor Rodrigo de Triana in 1492, when the crew reached the shores of the continent.

In 1913, the president of the Ibero-American Union Faustino Rodríguez-San Pedro suggested a celebration that would unite Spain and Latin America choosing to do so on 12 October.

The date marks the birth of a new identity and fusion product of the encounter of native peoples in the Americas and Spanish colonizers.