Central America
The Afro-Latin Americans of Central America mostly live in or near the Caribbean coast. The Blacks of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, are of GarÃfuna, Afro-Caribbean and/or Mestizo heritage, as well as of Miskito heritage. Those of Costa Rica and Panama are mostly of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Many Afro-Caribbean islanders arrived in Panama to help build the Panama Canal and to Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica to work in the banana and sugar-cane plantations.
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