Ecuador

Carlos Larrea and Fernando Montenegro Torres

Chapter 4 in Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America, 2006, pp 67-105 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Since pre-Columbian times the region that is now Ecuador has been an area of great cultural diversity. In part this diversity is due to the country’s terrain. Over the last thousand years and before the demographic changes of the mid-twentieth century, most of the population inhabited the region where the Andes mountains reach their narrowest point. Here generous rainfall and volcanic soil ensure the narrow valleys’ fertility. Elsewhere the landscape ranges from high-altitude moors (known as páramos) to the rainforests of the Amazon basin and the Pacific coastal plains. In this diverse geographical setting the indigenous peoples did not evolve into demographically large empires but lived in complex networks of smaller societies (Salomon, 1987).

Keywords: Indigenous People; Capita Consumption; Child Labour; Bilingual Education; Indigenous Woman (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230377226_4

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