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These documents accompany my book Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements (Duke University Press, 2008).
Population of Ecuador in 1858
|
Whites |
% of total |
Indians |
% of total |
Mestizos |
% of total |
Total |
|
Oriente |
43 |
0.45% |
9617 |
99.55% |
0 |
0.00% |
9660 |
|
% of ethnic |
0.02% | |
2.40% | |
0.00% | |
1.19% |
|
Imbabura |
27121 |
24.21% |
38014 |
33.94% |
46868 |
41.85% |
112003 |
|
Pichincha |
28310 |
24.25% |
39602 |
33.92% |
48850 |
41.84% |
116762 |
|
León |
28746 |
16.67% |
106988 |
62.03% |
36750 |
21.31% |
172484 |
|
Chimborazo |
18265 |
16.61% |
70502 |
64.13% |
21174 |
19.26% |
109941 |
|
Cuenca |
30850 |
25.00% |
82268 |
66.67% |
10285 |
8.33% |
123403 |
|
Loja |
34692 |
58.27% |
19849 |
33.34% |
5000 |
8.40% |
59541 |
|
Highlands |
167984 |
24.20% |
357223 |
51.46% |
168927 |
24.34% |
694134 |
|
% of ethnic |
87.49% | |
89.21% | |
76.37% | |
85.31% |
|
Esmeraldas |
1386 |
16.66% |
5544 |
66.63% |
1390 |
16.71% |
8320 |
|
Manabí |
1380 |
8.29% |
13885 |
83.45% |
1374 |
8.26% |
16639 |
|
Guayaquil |
21219 |
25.00% |
14150 |
16.67% |
49511 |
58.33% |
84880 |
|
Coast |
23985 |
21.84% |
33579 |
30.57% |
52275 |
47.59% |
109839 |
|
% of ethnic |
12.49% | |
8.39% | |
23.63% | |
13.50% |
|
Total |
192012 |
23.60% |
400419 |
49.21% |
221202 |
27.19% |
813633 |
Source: Joaquín de Avendaño and Leoncio Lopez-Ocon, Imagen del Ecuador: economía y sociedad, vistas por un viajero del siglo XIX, Colección Ecuador, testimonios de autores extranjeros ; 6 (Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional, 1985), 247-50.
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