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Who are the African people in Roatan?

Loperena: Garifuna have this really complicated history. They are a Black Indigenous people of African, Arawak, and Carib ancestry. They arrived in Honduras in 1797, initially in Roatán, after they were exiled from the island of Saint Vincent.



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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.

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The Garifuna. Los Garifuna (/g?'r?f?n?/ g?-rif-uu-n?);(pl. Garinagu in Garifuna) Are mixed-race of descendants. The Garifuna are a mix of people from West Africa, Carib Islands, and Central Africa.

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These ethnic groups in the area are the Garifuna, the Afro-British, the Ladinos, the Mestizos, the British Whites, and others foreigners.

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The Garifuna are an Afro-Latinx community with roots mostly in Central American countries like Honduras, Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

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