Afro-Venezuelans

Afro-Venezuelans

Afrovenezolanos (Spanish)
Tambores of San Benito de Palermo near Maracaibo Lake, Zulia State
Total population
Sub-Saharan ancestry predominates 1,087,427 (2011 census) 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
Predominantly Spanish
Religion
Majority: Roman Catholicism Minority: Protestantism · Traditional religion
Related ethnic groups
African, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Guyanese, Afro-Colombians, Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Trinidadians and Tobagonians and Venezuelan people

Afro-Venezuelans (Spanish: Afrovenezolanos), also known as Black Venezuelans (Spanish: Venezolanos negros), are Venezuelans who have predominantly or total Sub-Saharan African ancestry. 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.