Afro-Panamanian (Colonial) Erotic

Afro-Panamanians of colonial descent (Afro-coloniales) comprise approximately 8% of the Panamanian population per the 2010 INEC census. The community descends from colonial-era enslaved Africans brought to Spanish Panama between the 16th and early 19th centuries — Panama was a major colonial transit point for the Spanish silver trade between Peru and Spain, with substantial enslaved-African population both in transit and in permanent settlement. The colonial Cimarrón Maroon communities (escaped enslaved Africans who established self-governing communities along the Camino Real, the Panama-City-to-Portobelo trans-isthmian route) are the cultural-historical predecessors of the contemporary Afro-colonial population. Concentrated in Colón (where the colonial slave-trade landed), Panama City, the Pacific coastal provinces, and the historic Maroon territories. Spanish-speaking and Catholic, culturally and linguistically distinct from the later Afro-Antillean Panamanian population.