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4 unusual facts about Garifuna people


Garifuna

the Garifuna people, descendants of Carib, Arawak and West African people

Garifuna people

Cardinal Richelieu of France gave the island to the Saint Christophe Company, in which he was a shareholder.

The music was barely recorded until the 1990s, when Ivan Duran of Stonetree Records began the Paranda Project.

Gunchei

Gunchei is a type of Central America Garifuna dance in which the men take turns dancing with each woman.


Belize City

Even though people like Antonio Soberanis, George Price and Evan X Hyde all lobbied to take their movements outside, and other ethnic groups such as the Garifuna and Mestizos sprang up elsewhere in the country, people looked to Belize Town for guidance.

Cotton Tree Lodge

Tours include Lubaantun, Nim Li Punit, the Garifuna village of Barranco, swimming in Blue Creek Cave, waterfalls, cacao (chocolate) making workshops, tortilla-making workshops, and more.

Guatemalan quetzal

The obverse will contain the images of four people belonging to Guatemalan races, Ladino, Mayan representing 21 of the Amerindian ethnic groups, Garifuna, and Xinca.


see also

Garifuna

the Garifuna language, an Arawakan language spoken in Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize by the Garifuna people