Punta is an Afro-indigenous dance and cultural music of the Garifuna originating prior to their exile to Roatan from the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent And The Grenadines. Which is also known as Yurumei. It has African and Arawak elements which are also the characteristics of the Garifuna language.
Punta is the best-known traditional dance belonging to the Garifuna community. It is also known as banguity or bunda.
Musicians in the pororĂ³ festival in the streets at Livingston, Izabal, Guatemala. December 2015
The Garifuna people are a people of mixed free African and Amerindian ancestry that originated in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent and speak Garifuna, an Arawakan language, and Vincentian Creole.
Black Carib family in Saint Vincent
Depiction of the 1773 treaty negotiations between the British and the Black Caribs
Joseph Chatoyer, the chief of the Black Caribs in St. Vincent, in an 1801 engraving.
Garifuna parade on San Isidro Day, in Livingston (Guatemala)