Officially, zambos represent small minorities in the northwestern South American countries Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, and Ecuador.
A small but noticeable number of zambos, resulting from recent unions of Amerindian men to Afro-Ecuadorian women, are not uncommon in major coastal cities of Ecuador.
Prior to the rural to urban migration in Ecuador, the Amerindian and Afro-Ecuadorian ethnicities were constrained mostly to the Andes region and province of Esmeraldas, and the Chota Valley in the province of Imbabura, respectively.

In Central America, two indigenous-African mixed groups have developed: the Miskito and the Garifuna.
 The Garifuna originated from the combination of Africans who were either shipwrecked or fled from neighboring islands to St. Vincent, in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
In 1797 they were deported by the English, for their role in supporting France during the French Revolutionary Wars, to the island of Roatan off the coast of Honduras.
From there they reached the mainland, developing communities along the coast of Central America, from Nicaragua to Belize.

In Mexico, where zambos were sometimes known as lobos (literally meaning wolves), they form a sizeable minority.
According to the 2015 Intercensus Estimate, 896,829 people identified as both Afro-Mexican and Indigenous Mexican.
The great majority of the country's Afro-descended population has been absorbed into the wider mestizo population.
Greater concentrations can be found only in communities scattered around the southern coastal states, including Michoacán, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatán, and Veracruz, where many of the country's Afro-Mexicans reside.

Culturally, Mexican lobos followed Amerindian traditions rather than African influences, as they often had Amerindian mothers and were brought up in her culture.
Such acculturation also took place in Bolivia, where the Afro-Bolivian community absorbed and retained many aspects of Amerindian cultural influences, such as dress and the use of the Aymara language.
These communities of Afro-Bolivians reside in the Yungas region of the Bolivian department of La Paz.
Officially, zambos represent small minorities in the northwestern South American countries Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, and Ecuador. A small but noticeable number of zambos, resulting from recent unions of Amerindian men to Afro-Ecuadorian women, are not uncommon in major coastal cities of Ecuador. Prior to the rural to urban migration in Ecuador, the Amerindian and Afro-Ecuadorian ethnicities were constrained mostly to the Andes region and province of Esmeraldas, and the Chota Valley in the province of Imbabura, respectively.
In Central America, two indigenous-African mixed groups have developed: the Miskito and the Garifuna.  The Garifuna originated from the combination of Africans who were either shipwrecked or fled from neighboring islands to St. Vincent, in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In 1797 they were deported by the English, for their role in supporting France during the French Revolutionary Wars, to the island of Roatan off the coast of Honduras. From there they reached the mainland, developing communities along the coast of Central America, from Nicaragua to Belize. 
In Mexico, where zambos were sometimes known as lobos (literally meaning wolves), they form a sizeable minority. According to the 2015 Intercensus Estimate, 896,829 people identified as both Afro-Mexican and Indigenous Mexican. The great majority of the country's Afro-descended population has been absorbed into the wider mestizo population. Greater concentrations can be found only in communities scattered around the southern coastal states, including Michoacán, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatán, and Veracruz, where many of the country's Afro-Mexicans reside.
Culturally, Mexican lobos followed Amerindian traditions rather than African influences, as they often had Amerindian mothers and were brought up in her culture. Such acculturation also took place in Bolivia, where the Afro-Bolivian community absorbed and retained many aspects of Amerindian cultural influences, such as dress and the use of the Aymara language. These communities of Afro-Bolivians reside in the Yungas region of the Bolivian department of La Paz.
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