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Central America: Map of Miskito Coast languages and tribal groups
Central America: Miskito Coast languages and tribes (Athena Review Image Archive)
This
map shows the areas of Honduras and Nicaragua inhabited by the Miskito Indians in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Miskito coast
was visited by the 4th Voyage of Columbus in 1502, with Fernando
Colón providing some informative details on the peoples of the
area, which overlapped the Honduran Costa de las Orejas. The Miskito
coast and some of its people were also described in late 17th century
writings by the erstwhile privateers William Dampier and Lionel Wafer.
The Miskito coast
begins quite far east of the Maya region and cuts across a number of tribal
and language groups in Honduras and Nicaragua. The map shows the main
language groups from this region on the eastern border of Mesoamerica, with their inland
territory often defined by individual river drainages.
Miskito
tribes after the 16th century were composed of a mixture of linguistic
groups, including some runaway slaves from Spanish ports throughout the
Caribbean.
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