Matamuerte is a traditional Garinagudance. It is found in the Garifuna cultures in Central America, especially Honduras and Belize. The dance is performed with a background of rhythmic drums, common among Garinagu dances. Matamuerte is a humorous dance that conveys the image of people coming across a body on a beach and poking it to see if it is dead or alive. [1] GarÃfuna is a spanish term for the people and language of the GarÃnagu. ... For other uses, see Dance (disambiguation). ... Map of Central America Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. ...
Matamuerte can roughly be translated from Spanish as "death kills".
Garifuna music is similarly different from the rest of Central America; the most famous form is punta. ... Honduras is a Central American country whose musical culture is a mixture of indigenous, European and African elements. ...