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Ecuador has a population of about 1,120,000 descendants from sub-Saharan African people. The Afro-Ecuadorian culture is found primarily in the country's northwest coastal region. Afro-Ecuadorians form a majority (70%) in the province of Esmeraldas and also have an important concentration in the Valle del Chota in the Imbabura Province.
Ecuador is a multicultural and multiethnic nation, with the majority of its population is descended from a mixture of both European and Amerindian ancestry. The other 10% of Ecuador's population originate east of the Atlantic Ocean, predominantly from Spain, Italy, Lebanon, France and Germany.
The Spanish spoken in the Ecuadorian Andes tends to have many idioms borrowed from Kichwa, the native language spoken by the indigenous from this region. Words such as ñaño (which is used by many to refer to brother or "bro", while ñaña would mean sister) or choclo (corn on the cob) are widely used by people of any ethnicity or social class ...
Ecuador’s historical background has left the country with a very stratified social environment. [32] This is the nucleus of the stratification of different social classes in Ecuador. There have been many attempts to reduce such stratification such as making indigenous languages official in 1998.
Equatorial Spanish, also called Coastal Colombian-Ecuadorian dialect or Chocoano, is a dialect of Spanish spoken mainly in the coastal region of Ecuador, as well as in the bordering coastal areas of northern Peru and western Colombia. It is considered to be transitional between the Caribbean dialects and the Peruvian Coast varieties.
Ecuador would typically buy electricity from its neighbor Colombia, but a prolonged regional drought has weakened electrical grids throughout the region. Quito, Ecuador, during a scheduled 14-hour ...
An April presidential run-off in Ecuador will pit incumbent Daniel Noboa against leftist Luisa Gonzalez, in an unexpectedly tight contest featuring the same two candidates as a 2023 snap election.
The Ecuadorian parade consists of singers, DJ's, cars, and dance performances by the local community. Ecuadorian Americans have also been able to develop an Ecuadorian American cultural center [11] that was founded by 3 Ecuadorians in April 2009. [11] Those 3 Ecuadorians are Jose Rivera, Justo Santos, and Esau Chauca. [12]