Ecuadorians - Wikipedia
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.
Ecuador - Indigenous, Mestizo, Afro-Ecuadorian | Britannica
5 天之前 · 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).
Afro-Ecuadorians - Wikipedia
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.
Ethnic Groups Of Ecuador - WorldAtlas
2018年6月7日 · Mestizo. The Mestizos are multiracial people of mixed European and Amerindian bloodline. During the Spanish colonial era in Ecuador, they invented a complicated system of distinguishing between racial mixtures for purposes of racial profiling used for social control and a determinant of one's position in society.
Ecuador Culture and the Ecuadorian People - Ecuador Explorer
In addition to numerous and varied native cultures, Ecuador has a thriving Mestizo culture, and a sizable Afro-Ecuadorian culture (approximately ½ million), the descendants of African slaves who worked on coastal sugar plantations in the sixteenth century.
The three-hybrid genetic composition of an Ecuadorian
2019年6月25日 · The present study contributes to the knowledge of the Ecuadorian mestizo population by offering information about ancestry and ethnic heterogeneity. Forty-six AIM-InDels (Ancestry Informative...
The ‘Montubio’ ethnic identity has recently gained notoriety in Ecuador. This paper analyses how this identity emerges from and falls within Ecuador’s construction of ‘mestizaje’ or mixture as a tool for national integration.
Ecuador's People | Ethnic Groups & Demographics | Study.com
2023年11月21日 · The largest ethnic group in Ecuador is the mestizo people, who represent between 70%-80% of the country's total population. Other groups include Montubio , Creole , Afro-Ecuadorian , and ...
Ecuador's Indigenous Cultural Heritage - Galapagos Unbound
Ecuador recognizes five different ethnic identities: Amerindian (or indigenous peoples); mestizo (multiracial group of mixed Amerindian and European ancestry); Afro-Ecuadorian; Montubio; and white. At over 70%, the majority of Ecuador’s populace are recognized as mestizo, and Montubios, Amerinidans, and Afro-Ecuadorians each account for ...
Demographics of Ecuador - Wikipedia
There are five major ethnic groups in Ecuador: Mestizo, European, Afroecuadorian, Amerindian, and Montubio. Mestizos constitute more than 85% of the population. [2] According to genealogical DNA testing done in 2015, the average Ecuadorian is estimated to be 52.96% Amerindian, 41.77% European, and 5.26% Sub-Saharan African overall. [16]