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Jun 22, 2024 · One such question that frequently arises is whether Ecuadorian is a race or ethnicity. To clarify this confusion, it is important to understand that being Ecuadorian is primarily a nationality, not a race. The majority of Ecuadorians, approximately 72%, identify as ethnically mestizo.
- Kelli Wheeler
There are five major ethnic groups in Ecuador: Mestizo, European Ecuadorian, Afro-Ecuadorian, Indigenous, and Montubio. The 2022 census reported Mestizos constitute more than 77.5% of the population, 7.7% Indigenous American, 7.7% Montubio, 4.8% Afro-Ecuadorian and 2.2% European Ecuadorian.
Sep 3, 2024 · The main ethnic groups of Ecuador include a number of Indigenous-language-speaking populations (often referred to as Indigenous peoples or Amerindians) and highland and lowland Spanish-speaking mestizos (people of mixed Indigenous and European descent).
Jun 7, 2018 · Ecuador has a Mestizo majority, along with significant minorities of people with indigenous, African, and European ancestries.
Most Afro-Ecuadorians are the descendants of enslaved Africans who were transported by predominantly British slavers to Ecuador from the early 16th century. [3] In 1553, the first enslaved Africans reached Ecuador in Quito when a slave ship heading to Peru was stranded off the Ecuadorian coast.
Black people, represented by their leaders as Afro–Ecuadorians, (afroecuatorianos) , speak Spanish and range through the middle to lower classes. They are concentrated in the northwest coastal province of Esmeraldas, the Chota–Mira River Valley of the northern Andes, and the city of Guayaquil.
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Indigenous peoples in Ecuador, or Native Ecuadorians, are the groups of people who were present in what became Ecuador before the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The term also includes their descendants from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present.
