Afro-Hondurans

Afro-Hondurans (Spanish: Afrohondureños), also known as Black Hondurans (Spanish: Hondureños negros), are Hondurans who have predominantly or total Sub-Saharan African ancestry. Research by Henry Louis Gates regards their population to be around 1-2%.However more accurate research sources from scholars and private universities claim ranges from 20-30% of the countries total population due to many Black Hondurans or Afro-descendants, Mulattos, Afro-Indigenous and people with significant African descent identifying as Mestizo due to oppression from society and the government and wide-spread mixing amongst other things. descended from: enslaved Africans bought by the Spanish and British most notably the Miskito people, as well as those who were brought from the West Indies and identify as Creole peoples, and the Garifuna. The Creole people were originally from Jamaica and other Caribbean islands, the Miskito people have origins in eastern half of Honduras and north-eastern Nicaragua as well as from West and Central Africans brought as slaves to the former colony of the Miskito coast controlled by the British from the mid 1500s all the way through the late 1700s. 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 through the late 1900s. 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.Today there are a sizable number of people in the department of Olancho (a center for gold mining and cattle ranching) that would be considered black by US standards. They do not however identify as such but rather as mestizo (Bueso in Centeno 1997, Lang 1951).