For more than four decades now, scholars interested in the origin and evolution of Afro-European contact languages in the Americas have tried to figure out why Spanish creoles are only spoken in two very circumscribed regions of Latin America, in contrast to the much more widespread use of their English- and French-based varieties. In fact, it is a well-known fact that contemporary Latin American Spanish creoles can only be found in the former maroon community of San Basilio de Palenque (Colombia) – where Palenquero is spoken – and in the so-called ABC-triangle, the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles), where Papiamentu is used.