Are there people of primarily Spanish descent in the more Mestizo/Indian countries of Central America?
You had colonies of Europeans settling in different places for different reasons. Some kept there lineage fairly pure. Jews, English, Spanish, Italians, Germans, Africans…all had colonies. From Wikipedia: The majority of the Nicaraguan population is Mestizo and White. Exactly 59% are Mestizos (mixed Amerindian and White) and 27% are White with the majority being of Spanish, German, Italian,Portuguese and French ancestry. Mestizos and Whites mainly reside in the western region of the country and combined make up 86% of the Nicaraguan population, approximately 4.8 million people. About 9% of Nicaragua’s population is black, or Afro-Nicaragüense, and mainly reside on the country’s sparsely populated Caribbean or Atlantic coast. The black population is mostly of West Indian (Antillean) origin, the descendants of indentured laborers brought mostly from Jamaica when the region was a British protectorate. Nicaragua has the largest Afro Latin American population in Central America with the s
