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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).
Indigenous Ethnic Groups in Ecuador
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Area |
Ethnic Group |
Population (estimated) |
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Pacific Coast |
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Awa (Coaiquer) Chachi Epera Tsáchila (Colorados) |
1,600 6,500* 150** 2,000 |
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Sierra Highlands |
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Quichua |
3 million |
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Amazon (Oriente) |
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Quichua Cofán (A’I) Siona-Secoya Shuar (Jívaro) Achuar Huaorani (Huao or Aucas) Zaparos |
90,000 600 600 40,000 500 2,000 8*** |
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Source:
These figures are based largely on Lilyan Benítez and Alicia Garcés, Culturas ecuatorianas: ayer y hoy, 7th ed. (Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1993), except where otherwise noted.
*"Nacionalidad
Chachi," Nacionalidades Indígenas (CONAIE, Quito)
December 1995, 15.
**Interview with José
Maria Cabascango, CONAIE, December 11, 1995.
***Interview with
Alejandro Ushigua, December 6, 1996, Puyo, Ecuador.
