Punta Gorda Festival in Honduras
Punta Gorda Festival in Honduras is held on April 12. It is celebrating the Garifuna community. This event in the second decade of the month April is annual. 
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The oldest permanent settlement in Roatan, Punta Gorda (“Fat Point”) was founded shortly after April 12, 1797, when some 3,000 Garífuna deportees from the Caribbean island of San Vicente were stranded on Roatan by the British. Each year, at the Garifuna annual festival, the Garifuna people celebrate their first arrival into Punta Gorda, Roatan.
The festival includes animated theatrical performances that celebrate the first arrival of the very first Garifuna group from Yurime, which is a small region east of the Caribbean island of St. Vincent. The event is the best display of the Garifuna culture. Roatan locals dress the part and chant traditional songs in their native Garifuna language. The Garifuna come to live with their dances, drums, and colorful attires.
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