Afro-Hondurans
Afrohondureños | |
|---|---|
Afro-Honduran girl from La Mosquita, Honduras. | |
| Total population | |
| 1-2% of population (non-official estimates) | |
| 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 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%. 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 1800s. 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 communities in Central America.