RIO DULCE - LIVINGSTON
Located in northeastern Guatemala, the Rio Dulce is a river surrounded by tropical forests. It is born in Lake Izabal, crosses Lake Golfete Dulce and joins the Caribbean Sea near the town of Livingston.
The Rio Dulce is a refuge for various native and migratory birds.
The dwellings are made up of houses on stilts built in the middle of the jungle and the mangrove. This wild area of Guatemala is sparsely populated and the majority of people who live on the banks of the lakes and rivers of the Rio Dulce travel by rowing boat.
Livingston is home to a small “gariifuna” community, an Afro-Caribbean population. This isolated locality is only accessible by sea. The Garifunas come from the crossbreeding of escaped African slaves (the Maroon Negroes) and the natives (Caribbeans and Arawaks), mixing certain African traditions with Caribbean culture. Their name means “cassava eater” in Arawak.
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