Throughout history, Las Palmas received waves of immigrants from mainland Spain and countries from every continent. The majority of the population is Spanish, although there are large North- and Sub-Saharan African and Latin American communities (especially the Venezuelan community, which is growing fast), as well as important historical minorities such as Indians (Sindhi) and Koreans and a growing Chinese population. Ethnically, most autochthonous Canarians are descendants of a mixture of aboriginal people (قوان‌چی‌‌لر) of the Canary Islands (now extinct), the Spanish conquistadores and later European (mainly Spanish, Portuguese, فلاماند‌لار, Irish, French, Italian, German and British) colonizers.