Present-day country
Ecuador
12 nations list Ecuador among their present-day countries.
Present-day countries are listed by ISO 3166 names. Many nations live across more than one.
12 nations
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Achuar
Also known as Achual
Lands Northern Loreto in Peru near the Ecuador border, and the neighboring Amazon of Ecuador
Peru's Ministry of Culture has registered five interpreters and translators of the Achuar language.
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Kichwa
Also known as Quichua
Lands Highland provinces of Ecuador along the Andes, from Imbabura and Pichincha south to Chimborazo, Cañar and Loja
In 2009 Ecuador's Constitution was translated into Kichwa, with five delegates from Indigenous communities reviewing the translation.
Source: Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador (opens in a new tab) Checked
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Kichwa Kañari
Also known as Kañari
Lands Cañar and Azuay provinces in the southern highlands of Ecuador
In Cañar parish, the province's largest Indigenous organizational network brings together 15 communities and 5 cooperatives.
Source: Ministerio de Salud Pública del Ecuador (opens in a new tab) Checked
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Kichwa Kayambi
Also known as Kayambi
Lands Around Cayambe in Pichincha province and neighboring areas of Imbabura, northern Ecuador
In 2022 Kayambi water boards, communes and community organizations met with a national legislator to discuss issues including a new water law.
Source: Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador (opens in a new tab) Checked
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Kichwa Otavalo
Also known as Otavalo
Lands Otavalo and nearby communities such as Peguche in Imbabura province, northern Ecuador
Hampiriypacha, a Kichwa Otavalo association of seed guardians, works to protect knowledge that women have passed down for generations.
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Kichwa Puruwá
Also known as Puruhá
Lands Chimborazo province in the central highlands of Ecuador
Ecuador's 2010 census counted 136,141 Kichwa Puruwá people, about 18.5 percent of the whole Kichwa nationality.
Source: Ministerio de Salud Pública del Ecuador (opens in a new tab) Checked
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Kichwa Saraguro
Also known as Saraguro
Lands Saraguro canton in Loja province and nearby areas of southern Ecuador
In 2019 Radio Kipa, a new community radio station in Saraguro, was one of the few radios to have won a license from Ecuador's state in recent years, and planned to train 30 young people.
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Pasto
Also known as Los Pastos
Lands Highlands of Nariño, Colombia, in municipalities such as Cumbal, Guachucal, Ipiales and Túquerres, and across the border in northern Ecuador
The Pasto are working to recover their identity, oral tradition and ancestral customs, and to strengthen their own law through their cabildos.
Source: Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia, Dirección de Poblaciones (opens in a new tab) Checked
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Pueblo Originario Kichwa de Sarayaku
Also known as Kichwa of Sarayaku
Lands Middle Bobonaza river basin, Pastaza province, Ecuadorian Amazon
About 1,500 Kichwa people of Sarayaku live in seven community centers across roughly 135,000 hectares on the Bobonaza river in Pastaza, Ecuador.
Source: Pueblo Originario Kichwa de Sarayaku (opens in a new tab) Checked
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Sápara
Also known as Zápara
Lands Rainforest of Pastaza province in the Ecuadorian Amazon, straddling the border with Peru
UNESCO inscribed the oral heritage and cultural expressions of the Sápara people of Ecuador and Peru on its Representative List in 2008.
Source: UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (opens in a new tab) Checked
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Shuar
Lands Zamora Chinchipe, Morona Santiago and southern Pastaza provinces in the Ecuadorian Amazon
In 2022 the Shuar Aratsim Center approved its own Life Plan after participatory community workshops.
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Waorani
Also known as Huaorani
Lands Orellana, Pastaza and Napo provinces in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Waorani territory includes 32 communities in three Amazonian provinces of Ecuador: Orellana, Pastaza and Napo.
Source: ICCA Registry (UNEP-WCMC) (opens in a new tab) Checked