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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%. [2] [3] [4] 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 ...
The census states that only 89,000 people in Honduras labeled themselves as white, which is equal to around 1% of the total population at the time. [19] Another study has stated that around 210,000 people in Honduras fit this category, which would make the Honduran white population to be around 2.1%. [citation needed]
The following article lists sovereign states, dependent territories and some quasi-states according to their proportional ethnic population composition. Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries.
People with mestizo ancestry are the largest single group, and along with people who claim having a greater European ancestry, comprise approximately 80% of the population, [2] or even more. [ 3 ] In 2007, Central America had a population of approximately 40 million persons within an area of 523,780 km 2 , yielding an overall density of 77.3 ...
White Hondurans or white people from Honduras (colloquially called cheles), is a term used to refer to those Hondurans who are cataloged or considered as white people. However, the term white in Honduras similar to other Latin American countries is quite ambiguous, and some white people would not be classified as such in other countries.
The physical appearance of each type is briefly described, including colour adjectives referring to skin and hair colour: rufus "red" and pilis nigris "black hair" for Americans, albus "white" and pilis flavescentibus "yellowish hair" for Europeans, luridus "yellowish, sallow", pilis nigricantibus "swarthy hair" for Asians, and niger "black ...
The Lenca people have a true connection with the rivers, land, and nature. Non-indigenous people of Honduras pushed the Lenca people to live in the mountains, causing a lot of resistance between the two groups. [7] Along with the remote living conditions, hydroelectric facilities and mining are becoming popular in Lenca’s territory.
Phenotypically, only 9.6% of lower-class girls have light-colored eyes—either green or blue—where 31.6% of upper-middle-class girls have such eyes. [257] Blonde hair is present in 2.2% and 21.3%, of lower-class and upper-middle girls respectively, [ 257 ] whilst black hair is more common among lower-class girls (24.5%) than upper-middle ...