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Indians and Leftists 

This is an Electronic Appendix of documents to accompany my book Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements (Duke University Press, 2008).


Ethnic Composition of Ecuador (1942)

Ethnic group

Population

Percentage

Mestizo

1,266,522

41%

Indigenous

1,204,740

39%

White

308,908

10%

Black and Mulatto

154,454

5%

Other

154,454

5%

Total

3,089,078

100%

Source: Ecuador, Dirección general de estadística, Ecuador en cifras, 1938 a 1942 (Quito, Ecuador: Impr. del Ministerio de Hacienda, 1944), cited in Rafael Quintero and Erika Silva, Ecuador: una nación en ciernes, 3 volumes, Colección Estudios No. 1 (Quito: FLACSO/Abya-Yala, 1991), t. 2, 141.


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