The Garifuna are the descendants of indigenous Arawak, Kalinago (Island Carib), and Afro-Caribbean people. They are also known as Garínagu, the plural of Garifuna. The founding population, estimated at 2,500 to 5,000 persons, were transplanted to the Central American coast from the Commonwealth Caribbean island of Saint Vincent, known to the Garínagu as Yurumein, now called Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Windward Islands in the British West Indies in the Lesser Antilles. By 1981, around 65,000 Black Caribs were living in fifty-four fishing villages in Guatemala, Belize, and Nicaragua. Garifuna communities still live in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and abroad, including Garifuna Americans.