Afro-Venezuelan Erotic

Afro-Venezuelans comprise approximately 3.4% of the population per the 2011 INE census, though Afro-Venezuelan advocacy organizations argue this undercounts the population and that more inclusive definitions (including admixed populations) would place the share at 8-10% or higher. The community descends primarily from enslaved Africans brought to colonial Venezuela between the 16th and early 19th centuries (source populations from West and West-Central Africa, with Bantu — Kongo, Mbundu, Loango — particularly important in the Barlovento region). Concentrated in Barlovento (Miranda State, where the Curiepe, Tacarigua de Mamporal, Caucagua, and other communities maintain distinct Afro-Venezuelan cultural traditions including the festivals of San Juan), the Yaracuy Valley (Yaracuy State), the Aroa Mountains, parts of coastal Sucre and Falcón, and the southern Lake Maracaibo zone. Includes the smaller Loango (Curiepe-area) cultural-identity sub-community.