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References
- 1 2 Avila, Tomas Alberto; Jose Francisco Avila (2008). Garifuna World. Milenio Associates. pp. 362, 423, 426. ISBN 978-1928810025.
- ↑ "Garifuna Settlement Day Celebrated". San Pedro Sun. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ↑ Greenspan, Eliot (2011). Frommer's Belize (4th ed.). Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing. pp. 36–37. ISBN 978-0470887707.
