Why is it called the Caribbean region?
Why is it called the Caribbean region? Caribbean means “of or pertaining to the Caribs” and comes from the Spanish word for Caribbean: Caribe. Caribs or Island Caribs are names used to refer to the Indigenous people of the Lesser Antilles.
What race is Caribbean?
The Caribbean ethnicity is a fusion of Indigenous, African, European, and Asian. Many of the cultures of the Caribbean are formed by these four ethnic groups of the Caribbean.
Who lived in the Caribbean first?
According to oral history, the Igneri were the original Arawak inhabitants of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles before being conquered by the Caribs who are thought to have arrived from South America.