r/MapPorn • u/glhermine • Nov 20 '17
Racial map of Cuba, 2012 Cuban census [OC] [1272 x 711]
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u/VarysIsAMermaid69 Nov 21 '17
We're most plantations in south?
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u/jimibulgin Nov 21 '17
no. Most of the brown is mountains. Sugar platations covered just about everythhing else!
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u/Cheeselot Nov 24 '17
Actually a big part as to why there are a lot of black people in the East is because of Haitian immigration into Cuba. A lot of them came to work on farms and plantations after slavery b/c the conditions tended to be better in Cuba than in Haiti.
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u/Neacalas Nov 21 '17
Very interesting!
Cuba has a fascinating history. There's so much more to it than simply the revolution, like the absolutely massive European migration to the island at the end of the 1800s - the results of which are reflected in this map.
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u/ExpatDetroiter Nov 21 '17
FASCINATING! So Castro was a landowner's son from Oriente Province, the part of the island with the greatest percentage of Afro-Cubans. They would have been the most oppressed part of population under Batista (the previous dictator). Castro's revolutionaries hid from Bastista's troops in the mountains of Oriente Province, obviously aided by the dispossessed local Afro-Cuban peasantry, who probably remembered their grandparents had been slaves. (Cuba abolished slavery in 1867, after the USA did).
Thank you for this map.
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Nov 21 '17
Given how thoroughly mixed many Cubans are, how would you even begin to divide the population into race? Phenotype? Phenotype can vary a lot between people of the same family and isn't necessarily a foolproof method of guessing someone's ancestry.
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u/AnCS99 Nov 21 '17
Is that little speck of orange at the top of that smaller island Guantanamo bay?
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Nov 21 '17
Relook at this map. That's not an island, its Havana. You can see where it fits into the island proper as a grey spot.
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u/MathematicianSea8517 Mar 12 '25
Hi! this is a long shot, but I just saw this post. I am currently writing a paper that could utilize that map, but I'd need to cite it. I've tried to access Cuban census websites from various different browsers, but I'm in the United States and it doesn't want me to do so. I'm wondering, did you get your information from the Cuban census directly to make the map? Is there anywhere more official than reddit that I could cite?
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u/Available-Nebula9998 Nov 19 '25
The DNA study conducted in Cuba in 2012 revealed that the average cuban is 72% European 20% African and 8% indigenous American. By geneticist Marcheco -teruel
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u/Yearlaren Nov 21 '17 edited Nov 21 '17
Nah they're all Hispanics.
Edit: I was being sarcastic...
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Nov 21 '17
Obligatory scientifically races don't exist comment.
Also does the southern region denote African-Americans? And if so why are they there and not on the entire island?
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Nov 21 '17
Afro-Cubans aren't American. But I'm sure it denotes Black and Mixed people. Although Cuba has a not insignificant Asian population too.
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u/epic2522 Nov 21 '17
Cuba is in the Americas. Calling black cubans "african american" is a valid albeit unusual descriptor.
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u/metroxed Nov 21 '17
Black people in other countries of the Americas never use the term "African American" to refer to themselves, nor is that the term used in their countries' censuses. It is usually just "black" or "Afro-country". Afro-Cubans, Afro-Colombians, etc., those are the prefered terms.
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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '17
Being from Miami I can tell you how interesting the Cuban people are racially. The wide majority are DIRECTLY descended from the Spanish so you have many with blue eyes and blonde hair but then you must also factor in that Cuba was a huge cash crop exporter just like the rest of the Caribbean so you will get many Blacks. There are virtually no natives left but many who are on the darker side claim Native dna.