Hispanic Heritage Month
September 15 - October 15
5 interesting facts about Heritage Month
1. Seventy percent of the Hispanic population lives in California, Texas, New York, Florida and Illinois.
2. To Hispanics, religion is very important. More than 90 percent of the Spanish-speaking world is Roman Catholic.
3. The world's second language is Spanish in terms of how many people speak it as their first language. In total their are 329 million native speakers.