Afro-Hondurans

Black Hondurans
Afrohondureños
Afro-Honduran girl from La Mosquita, Honduras.
Total population
1-2% of population (non-official estimates)[1][2]
Regions with significant populations
Creole people: Bay Islands and some Caribbean coastal Honduran cities like Puerto Cortes, Tela and La Ceiba;
Garifuna people: Roatan Island, Trujillo, Colon, Santa Fe, Colon, La Ceiba, Tela

African people:

La Ceiba, Roatan, Trujillo, Gracias a Dios, El Progreso, Islas de la Bahia, La Paz, Olancho, Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula,and Tela
Languages
Majority: Spanish
Minority: Garifuna, Miskito, and Bay Islands English
Religion
Protestantism, Roman Catholicism,
Related ethnic groups
Afro-Latin Americans, Caribs

Afro-Hondurans or Black Hondurans are Hondurans of Sub-Saharan African descent. Research by Henry Louis Gates and other sources regards their population to be around 1-2%.[2][3][4] They descended from: enslaved Africans by the Spanish, as well as those who were enslaved from the West Indies and identify as Creole peoples, and the Garifuna who descend from exiled zambo Maroons from Saint Vincent. The Creole people were originally from Jamaica and other Caribbean islands, while the Garifuna people were originally from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Garifunas arrived in the late seventeen hundreds and the Creole peoples arrived during the eighteen hundreds. About 600,000 Hondurans are of Garífuna descent that are a mix of African and indigenous as of Afro Latin Americans. Honduras has one of the largest African community in Latin America.[5][6][7]

  1. ^ "Afro-Hondurans 1%" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-04-25.
  2. ^ a b "Honduras". CIA World Factbook. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  3. ^ Louis., Appiah, Anthony. Gates, Henry (1999). Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience. Basic Civitas Books. OCLC 1024166471.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Afro-Hondurans 1%" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-04-25.
  5. ^ "List of Disappeared Hondurans. N.d. 2 pp". Human Rights Documents online. doi:10.1163/2210-7975_hrd-1226-0119. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  6. ^ Leocadia., Avni, Ronit. Shende, Suzanne. Caldwell, Gillian. Martinez, Julian. Gutierrez (2002–2004), Garífunas holding ground ; When the river met the sea : Garifunas rebuilding after Hurricane Mitch, Witness, OCLC 69339773, retrieved 2022-02-15{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Spotlight on Garifuna history and reparation with Jóse Francisco Ávila". 18 July 2021.