Punta is the main "ritmo" of Honduras with other music such as Paranda, Bachata, Caribbean salsa, cumbia, reggae, merengue, soca, calypso, dancehall, Reggaeton and most recently Afrobeats widely heard especially in the North the Department of Atlántida, to Mexican rancheras heard in the interior rural part of the country.
Honduras' capital Tegucigalpa is an important center for modern Honduran music, and is home to the College for Fine Arts.
The Garifuna peoples origins trace back to the enslaved West Africans blending with the Indigenous populations of the Caribbeans.
Like many Latin genres, Punta form through slave trades and this tribe creating this music as a way to dance and celebrate.
[4] Early Punta started as a ritual or used in celebrations and moved towards folk and poetic music to the Garifuna tribes.
Garifuna tribes began to immigrate to Latin American countries around the late 1700s landing in Honduras by the end of the 18th century.
Folkloric Punta focuses more on the tradition instruments used by the Garifuna people and has a story-telling element to its lyrics and dance.