Afro-Uruguayan Erotic

Afro-Uruguayans comprise approximately 8% of the Uruguayan population per the 2011 INE census — the first census to enumerate Afro-descendant self-identification at the national scale (though pilot questions had appeared in 2006 surveys). The community descends from enslaved Africans brought to colonial Banda Oriental (modern Uruguay) primarily in the 18th-early 19th centuries, with source populations from West and Central Africa. The colonial-era population was substantial — by some estimates, 25-30% of Montevideo's population in the late 18th c. was of African descent — but declined demographically through the 19th c. wars (the Cisplatine War, the Guerra Grande, the Triple Alliance War, where Afro-Uruguayan men were heavily conscripted and disproportionately died), epidemic disease, and integration with the broader population. Concentrated in Montevideo (Sur, Palermo, Cordón Sur neighborhoods), plus regional populations along the Brazilian border in Cerro Largo, Rivera, and Artigas departments. Cultural continuity persists most strongly in candombe music and dance, recognized as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2009.