Afro-Venezuelans
Racial or ethnic group in Venezuela with African ancestry / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Afro-Venezuelans (Spanish: Afrovenezolanos) are Venezuelans of African descent. Afro-Venezuelans are mostly descendants of enslaved Africans brought to the Western Hemisphere during the Atlantic slave trade. This term also sometimes refers to the combining of African and other cultural elements found in Venezuelan society such as the arts, traditions, music, religion, race, and language.
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Total population | |
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1,087,427 (2011) (3.6% of Venezuelan population)[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Highest percent found in the Venezuelan Caribbean and Barlovento. Small minorities live in the U.S., Spain, and Brazil. | |
Languages | |
Spanish, Portuguese, English, Papiamento, Antillean French Creole, Trinidadian English Creole, Tobagonian English Creole, Guyanese English Creole | |
Religion | |
Predominantly Roman Catholicism, minorities of Venezuelan Yuyu, Maria Lionza, Islam, Afro-American religions. | |
Related ethnic groups | |
African, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Guyanese, Afro-Colombians, Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Trinidadians and Tobagonians and Venezuelan people |
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