Ancestral Roots

In various towns in southern Lake Maracaibo (El Batey, Bobures, Gibraltar, Santa Maria, and some others) live direct heirs of those Africans brought to the area as slaves of the sugar cane and cocoa plantations during the Spanish colony in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.

Came mainly from the West African coast -Angola and Gambia-. Faces that are living testimony of a cultural heritage that has resisted time by fusing traditions that derive to a unique identity.