 Amerindians make up the third largest racial identity among Puerto Ricans, comprising 0.5% of the population.Although this self-identification may be ethno-political in nature since unmixed Tainos no longer exist as a discrete genetic population.Puerto Rico's self-identified Amerindian population therefore consist mostly of Amerindian-identified persons (oftentimes with predominant Amerindian ancestry, but not always) from within the genetically mestizo population of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, even when most other Puerto Ricans of their exact same mixture would identify either as mixed-race or even as white.