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I believe it's due to the people who were already in the America's before the Spanish arrived. Spanish in America become more "smooth" or "softer" than the more guttural Spanish found in Spain thanks to Muslims. You also have the American languages influencing certain words in Spanish.I'm not a linguist, but given that Andalusia was the last stronghold of Arabs and Islam in Iberia for a long time and that most Spanish immigrants to Latin America were Andalusians, wouldn't there be more Arabic loanwords in Latin American Spanish than in Castilian Spanish, which comes from Castille, a region that was never conquered by Arabs?