Afro-Venezuelans

Afro-Venezuelans

Tambores of San Benito de Palermo near Maracaibo Lake, Zulia State
Total population
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

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.