Ecuatorianos Nativos (Spanish) | |
|---|---|
 Shuar people in the park of Logroño | |
| Total population | |
| 1,301,887 (2022 census)[1] 7.69% of the Ecuadorian population | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Ecuador; Mainly: Sierra (Andean highlands) and Oriente (Eastern) | |
| Languages | |
| Kichwa language, Spanish, Achuar-Shiwiar, Cha'palaachi, Cofán, Tsachila, Cuaiquer, Secoya, Shuar, Siona, Tetete, Waorani | |
| Religion | |
| Majority: Catholicism Minority: Indigenous religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Indigenous peoples of the Americas |
The Indigenous peoples in Ecuador or Native Ecuadorians (Spanish: Ecuatorianos Nativos) 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. Their history, which encompasses the last 11,000 years,[2] reaches into the present; 7 percent of Ecuador's population is of indigenous heritage, while another 70 percent are Mestizos of mixed indigenous and European heritage.[3] Genetic analysis indicates that Ecuadorian Mestizos are of three-hybrid genetic ancestry.[4]
- ^ "Ecuador: Censo de Población y Vivienda 2022" (PDF). censoecuador.gob.ec. 21 September 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ Salazar, Ernesto (1996). "Les premiers habitants de l'Equateur". Les Dossiers d'Archéologie (in French). 214. Dijon: Faton: 3–85.
- ^ Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities (2013), p. 422. Edited by Carl Skutsch
- ^ Zambrano, Ana Karina; Gaviria, Aníbal; Cobos-Navarrete, Santiago; Gruezo, Carmen; Rodríguez-Pollit, Cristina; Armendáriz-Castillo, Isaac; García-Cárdenas, Jennyfer M.; Guerrero, Santiago; López-Cortés, Andrés; Leone, Paola E.; Pérez-Villa, Andy; Guevara-Ramírez, Patricia; Yumiceba, Verónica; Fiallos, Gisella; Vela, Margarita; Paz-y-Miño, César (2019). "The three-hybrid genetic composition of an Ecuadorian population using AIMs-InDels compared with autosomes, mitochondrial DNA and y chromosome data". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 9247. Bibcode:2019NatSR...9.9247Z. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-45723-w. PMC 6592923. PMID 31239502.