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  2. Afro-Hondurans - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Demographics of Honduras - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Hondurans - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    Gray eyes can also be found among the Algerian Shawia people [67] of the Aurès Mountains in Northwest Africa, in the Middle East/West Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia. In the Iliad, the Greek goddess Athene is said to have gray eyes (γλαυκῶπις). [68] Under magnification, gray eyes exhibit small amounts of yellow and brown color in ...

  6. Ethnic groups in Central America - Wikipedia

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    Central America is a subregion of the Americas [1] formed by six Latin American countries and one (officially) Anglo-American country, Belize.As an isthmus it connects South America with the remainder of mainland North America, and comprises the following countries (from north to south): Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

  7. Culture of Honduras - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Color terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    [21] In the 2000 US Census, "Black or African American" refers to a "person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa." [21] The other three self-designated races are not labeled by color. [21] This is due to historic negative associations of terms like "Yellow" (for East Asians) and "Red" (for Native Americans) with racism.

  9. Portal:Honduras - Wikipedia

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    Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America.It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.