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Santería

an African diaspora religion developed in Cuba in the late 19th century through syncretism between Yoruba religion, Catholicism, and Spiritism, with no central authority and significant diversity among practitioners
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Santería

Summary

Santería ranks in the top 0.59% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22,731 views/month, #462 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Santería is a type of Afro-American religion[2].
  • Santería's Commons category is recorded as Santería[3].
  • Santería's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Santería[4].
  • Santería's described by source is recorded as Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia[5].
  • Santería's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject African diaspora[6].

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Definition and Type

Santería is a type of Afro-American religion[2].

Why It Matters

Santería ranks in the top 0.59% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22,731 views/month, #462 of 77,819).[1] Santería has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7] Santería is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[8]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → an African diaspora religion developed in Cuba in the late 19th century through
    Bbc things id → e5b8e5a5-8f85-4bb7-b041-65c929abd2e2
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX532219
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P950]]: XX532219"
  2. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0375381-santeria
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ [[Property:P1810]]: santería, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
  3. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject African diaspora
    Subclass of → Afro-American religion
    Topic's main category → Category:Santería
    Subclass of → —
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 28851, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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