Marabou is a term of Haitian origin denoting of multiracial ethnicity. The term describes the offspring of a Black African/European or mulatto and an Amerindian, specifically the native Taíno, born in Haiti (formerly Saint-Domingue). The heavy population of Africans on the island established by the French and Spanish diluted the generations of so-called "marabous" over the decades and virtually all Haitians today of Amerindian descent are assumed to also possess African ancestry. Several other terms exist for the "marabou" racial mixture in other countries (see Cafuzo, Zambo).
