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Ecuador

In: Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America

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  • Carlos Larrea
  • Fernando Montenegro Torres

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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).

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  • Carlos Larrea & Fernando Montenegro Torres, 2006. "Ecuador," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Gillette Hall & Harry Anthony Patrinos (ed.), Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America, chapter 4, pages 67-105, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37722-6_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230377226_4
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