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 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.
Afro-Honduran girl from La Mosquita, Honduras.
Banner at Carnival de La Ceiba
Victor Trapp Manuel (a Miskito Sambu) representing the Miskito people at a forum of the ACAL conference at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras
A Bay island Creole eating at the Saloon Rotan in Roatán, Honduras.
Creole peoples may refer to different ethnic groups around the world. The term has been used with various meanings, often conflicting or varying from region to region.
Trilingual signs on Cafe Kreol in Cape Verde.
An Aleutian man with an Alaskan Creole woman in the Aleutian Islands.
A Creole of New Orleans
Bourgeois Louisiana Creole girls in fashionable dress