_Trio_-_Panama_City_-_Panama_(11427376006).jpg) Afro-Panamanian man in Casco Viejo. | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Colón, Cristóbal and Balboa, Río Abajo area of Panama City, the Canal Zone, province of Bocas del Toro, villages in the Darién Province | |
| Languages | |
| Panamanian Spanish, Bocas del Toro Creole | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Roman Catholicism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Afro-Caribbeans |
Afro-Panamanians are Panamanians of African descent. The population can be mainly broken into two categories: "Afro-Colonials", those descended from slaves brought to Panama during the colonial period; and "Afro-Antilleans", West Indian immigrant descendants with origins in Trinidad, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Belize, Barbados, and Jamaica, whose ancestors were brought in to build the Panama Canal.
Afro-Panamanians can be found in the towns and cities of Colón, Cristóbal and Balboa, the Río Abajo area of Panama City, the Canal Zone and the province of Bocas del Toro.[1]
- ^ "AFRO-PANAMANIANS". Word Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples. Word Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples. Archived from the original on 3 December 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2012.