Afro-Nicaraguans

Afro-Nicaraguans

Afro-Nicaraguan man in Bluefields, Nicaragua.
Total population
294,000 [1]
Regions with significant populations
Predominantly in the Miskito Coast; Bluefields, and in large cities like Managua. A small minority live abroad in the United States, Panama, Costa Rica, and Spain.[2]
Languages
Spanish English Indigenous languages Miskito Coast Creole Rama Cay Creole African languages
Religion
Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, Garifuna, Sumo, Rama and Miskitos cultures.
Related ethnic groups
Sub-saharan Africans, Afro-Caribbean, African-Americans.

Afro-Nicaraguans are Nicaraguans of Sub-Saharan African descent. Five main distinct ethnic groups exist: The Creoles who descend from Anglo-Caribbean countries and many of whom still speak Nicaragua English Creole,^[3] the Miskito Sambus descendants of Spanish slaves and indigenous Central Americans who still speak Miskito and/or Miskito Coast Creole,^[4] the Garifunas descendants of Zambos (Caribs, Arawaks, and shipwrecked maroons) expelled from St. Vincent who speak Garifuna,^[5] the Rama Cay zambos a subset of the Miskito who speak Rama Cay Creole,^[6] and the descendants of those enslaved by the Spanish.^[7]