Mestizo Venezuelan Erotic

Mestizo Venezuelans (typically self-identified as moreno in Venezuelan usage, a category somewhat distinct from Mexican-Andean mestizo terminology) comprise approximately 52% of the Venezuelan population — the dominant national identity per the 2011 INE census. The category encompasses the broad mixed-ancestry population descended from Spanish colonial settlement (Canarian and Andalusian source populations particularly important), Indigenous Caribbean and Andean source populations (Caribe, Arawak, Timoto-Cuica, Motilón, and others), and African source populations brought during the colonial slave trade. Genome-wide studies (Martínez-Cruzado et al. 2005, Castro de Guerra et al. 2011) place average ancestry at roughly 50-65% European, 15-30% Indigenous, and 10-25% African with substantial regional variance — coastal Caribbean and Llanero populations carry higher African ancestry; Andean populations carry higher Indigenous ancestry; central highland and Caracas populations carry higher European ancestry.