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Garifuna Culture
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Garifunas are pittoresque ethnic group in Nicaragua and Central America.
Garifuna culture in Central America Region, especially the dance and lanaguage of the Garifunas, was declared as a part of intangible heritage of humanity, by Unesco 2001. Garifunas are the unique afro decendent ethnic group which has gained this distinction.
In the life of Garifunas of Orinoco there is a stright relationship among the garifuna people, traditional use of natural resources in every day activities and ancestral believings and proper heritage.
Tradition of dances, drums (tambores), original language, traditional and delicious gastronomy are the visible sign of this spriritual and traditional heritage.
Orinoco is the capitol of the Garifuna ethnic group in Nicaragua. It offers marvillous oportunity to get to know this part of Nicaraguan rich ethnic caleidoscope.
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Lately passed, the most famos Garifuna musician Andy Palacios tell us in video about Garifuna traditions: