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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 2-10% Self identifying Afro-Hondurans but percentages are as high as 20% of the population according to some articles and studies.
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The largest population, however, is in Honduras of Garifuna, English-speaking Creoles, Afro-Hondurans, and to a lesser degree of Miskito descent, of which the majority is concentrated on the Caribbean coast and the Bay Islands Department. An estimated 600,000 Hondurans are of Garífuna descent, and, in addition to the Miskito and Creole ...
In 2014, there were about 14,000 Hondurans of Italian descent, while there were around 400 Italian citizens. [16] Percentages of whites varied between 2.1% and 7%, [17] due to the fact that the majority of Hondurans identify themselves as mestizos, regardless of their ethnic and racial category. [18]
Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Cubans, Afro-Dominicans, Afro-Hondurans, Afro-Panamanians, Afro–Puerto Ricans, Afro-Colombians, Afro-Mexicans and other Latin Americans are from these African slaves. The first Africans brought to the New World arrived on the island of Hispaniola (now divided between the Dominican Republic and Haiti).
Football player Steve Van Buren, born in La Ceiba.. By the beginning of the century, there was a closer relation between Honduras and the United States, permitting U.S. and Honduran citizens move from one country to another due the fact of the banana companies, one Honduran American of this era was Steve Van Buren, born in the city of La Ceiba, that by the time had an economic growth.
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.