People group profile · PG017461
The Canari Highland Quichua of Ecuador
The Canari Highland Quichua of Ecuador, numbering about 174,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Andean people of southern Ecuador's Azuay and Canar highlands with over 3,000 years of settlement, noted for fine goldwork and stone architecture, who resisted Inca conquest until defeat in the 1470s and later allied with the Spanish against the Inca.
They are an indigenous people in the Quechua people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Folk Catholicism, and they primarily speak Cañar Highland Quichua.
Fast facts
- Country
- Ecuador
- Population
- 174,000
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Quechua
- Primary language
- Cañar Highland Quichua (qxr)
- Primary religion
- Folk Catholicism
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5%
- GSEC
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Minimally Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Azuay, Cañar, and Chimborazo provinces; Morona-Santiago province: Morona canton
Where they live
Gospel status
The Canari Highland Quichua are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 2% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Canari Highland Quichua
- Pray for the churches among this group to grow in faithfulness and maturity
- Equip believers to reach the unreached peoples around them
- Send out laborers from this people to the nations
Primary religion
Folk Catholicism · Christianity
98% adherents
Primary language
Cañar Highland Quichua · Quechuan family
40% speak Cañar Highland Quichua
Gospel resources in Cañar Highland Quichua
- Bible available, published 2010
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Quichua, Canar Highland)
Bibles
- Sociedades Bíblicas Unidas de Ecuador 2010 · video, audio
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Canari Highland Quichua
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
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