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= History of Mexican Americans in the Pacific Northwest = The Pacific Northwest was inhabited by Indigenous Peoples prior to European settlement. Around the mid-16th centuries, the Spanish began to explore the region,they left the named locations of Cape Blanco and Cape Sebastian. It would be later in the 1800s, Mexican Americans would have more of a presence in the region. These early explorers had professions as sailors, merchants, miners, soldiers, adventurers, and sheepherders. The Mexican Settlers were regarded to have brought the Mule Trains to the region providing their services during the Rogue River Wars to the United States Army. The 1910-1920 Revolution in Mexico and Bracero program were some of the major contributors of Mexican migration into the region.

Between 1943 and 1947, more than 39,000 Mexican males were employed in the state of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.

Oregon
In the State of Oregon, the Mexican American population is largely concentrated in Malheur and Jefferson counties. More than 47,000 Mexican Workers settled in the Northern Willamette Valley between 1942 and 1947 through the Bracero program. The program would be expanded from its initial expiration and subsequently more Mexican workers were brought into the fields. To their knowledge, in a 1957 report of "Spanish-speaking (farm) labor), they found that out of the population, 70% were reported to have migrated from Texas, while 5% of that population each came from Arizona, California, and Washington respectively. That same report found that only 10% of the labor force were state-born residents.

In Washington County, the Latino population consist almost 16% of the county's total population, from about 2,540 in 1970 to 83,810 in 2010.

Hispanics in 1980 composed 2.5 percent of Oregon's total population.

By 2000, the Latino population comprised eight percent of the state of Oregon's total.

Washington
The State of Washington has a large population of Mexican Americans living in the The Yakima Valley and in the Tri-Cities area thanks to high demand for agricultural labor.

Mexicans were noted to have ventured up to the state in the mid-19thcentury, in "Report of the Route from the Columbia Valley to Fort Owen and thence to Fort Benton" written in 1853 by Lieutenant R. Saxton, the Native Americans of the Spokane Valley had met with a "Spanish" Trader who was from New Mexico.

The Columbia Basin Irrigation Project was a key contributor in igniting the second wave of Latino migration into the region.

From the 1970 census, 37% of the region's Mexican American population were born in their respective state. By 1980, the state was 14th in rank for number of Latino residents, and three percent of the state's population.

In the 1990 Census, Washington State was reported to have the eighth largest population of Mexican Americans in the United States.