What ethnic groups are in Nicaragua?

The majority of Nicaraguans (69%) are of mixed Spanish and Native American descent, known as mestizos. The largest indigenous groups are the Miskito (11.5%), Mayangna (1.3%), and Rama (0.3%), who live mainly in the Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. The Garífuna (1.9%), an Afro-Indigenous ethnic group, are mainly descendants of slaves who escaped from British plantations in the Caribbean and settled in Nicaragua in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Creole (4%) and English-speaking Afro-Nicaraguans (5%), descendants of slaves brought by British colonists to work on plantations in the Caribbean Coast, also live mainly in the Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. There is also a significant population of white Nicaraguans (7%) who are descended from Spanish colonists. Other ethnic groups include Arab, Chinese, German, Italian, Jewish, and Lebanese immigrants.