Quito Quichua

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The Quito Quichua are the Quichua-speaking people living mostly within the suburban districts and rural parishes of the Quito Canton (Municipal Quito) in the central highlands of Pichincha province, Ecuador. The Quito Quichua are in transition between a subsistence and a commercial or market economy, with a wide variety of small businesses and wage-earning in the industrial and service sectors. Some Quito Quichua are prosperous, particularly those who have retained landholdings and/or have expanded their retail and wholesale trading within Quito to an interprovincial or international scale. However, many wage laborers have to work multiple jobs to survive.

Identifier

Region

• South America

Subregion

• Central Andes

Subsistence Type

• agro-pastoralists

Countries

• Ecuador