The Yoruba have a large population in West Africa and broad dispersion through enslavement in the Americas.
Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago are the countries in the Americas where Yoruba cultural influences are the most noticeable, particularly in popular religions like Vodon, Santéria, Camdomblé, and Macumba.
(In 1989, it was believed that more than 70 million individuals in Africa and the New World participated in Yoruba religion in one way or another.
)[2] The most prevalent West African religions, both in Africa and the Americas, are often those of the Yoruba people or those that were influenced by them.
Oṣun The supreme being in Yorùbá culture is known as Olódùmarè/Elédùmarè, Elédùà as well as other names.