Editing Black people (section)

===Venezuela===
{{Main|Afro-Venezuelan}}
Most black Venezuelans descend from people brought as slaves to Venezuela directly from Africa during colonization;<ref>{{citation|url=http://antropologiayecologiaupel.blogspot.com/2011/03/procedencia-de-los-esclavos-negros-en.html|author=University of the Andes (Venezuela)|title=Historia de Venezuela – Procedencia de los Esclavos Negros en Venezuela|date=3 March 2011|access-date=6 May 2018|author-link=University of the Andes (Venezuela)}}</ref> others have been descendants of immigrants from the Antilles and Colombia. Many blacks were part of the [[Venezuelan War of Independence|independence movement]], and several managed to be heroes. There is a deep-rooted heritage of African culture in Venezuelan culture, as demonstrated in many traditional Venezuelan music and dances, such as the [[Tambor (dance)|Tambor]], a musical genre inherited from black members of the colony, or the [[Joropo|Llanera music]] or the [[Gaita zuliana]] that both are a fusion of all the three major peoples that contribute to the cultural heritage. Also, black inheritance is present in the country's gastronomy.

There are entire communities of blacks in the [[Barlovento, Venezuela|Barlovento]] zone, as well as part of the [[Bolívar (state)|Bolívar state]] and in other small towns; they also live peaceably among the general population in the rest of Venezuela. Currently, blacks represent a plurality of the Venezuelan population, although many are actually [[Multiracial|mixed people]].