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The Chimborazo Highland Quichua of Ecuador

The Chimborazo Highland Quichua of Ecuador, numbering approximately 1,010,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Indigenous Kichwa people of Ecuador's central Andean highlands, especially Chimborazo Province, whose communities have a history shaped by hacienda-era life and later Indigenous ethnic resurgence. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Chimborazo Highland Quichua is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Quichua, Chimborazo Highland

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Ecuador
People Cluster: Quechua
Primary Language(s): Chimborazo Highland Quichua (qug)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 1,010,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017464
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Chimborazo Highland Quichua
Language Family: Quechuan

80%
%
Quichua, Chimborazo Highland Speakers

Media Resources in Chimborazo Highland Quichua:

Films:
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Bible Resources in Chimborazo Highland Quichua:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2003 Bible Society of Ecuador✓✓

1 entry

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Or check out the Chimborazo Highland Quichua bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Chimborazo Highland Quichua are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Chimborazo Highland Quichua:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Chimborazo Highland Quichua of Ecuador

And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
readMatthew 6:7-8

Pray that those who don't have a relationship with their Creator will come to know a God who hears their every need, freeing them from empty rituals and drawing them into a real, trusting relationship with Him.

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
readJames 4:4

Pray that the lost will be convicted of their friendship with the world, which is hostility toward God, and that they will turn from their sin and embrace the grace and mercy of God through Christ Jesus.

Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.
readPsalm 34:5

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will see themselves as God sees them, with radiant faces and hearts that have been cleansed of all shame.

And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven."
readMatthew 16:17

Pray that God who is in heaven will place believers in the lives of people who need to encounter the gospel and that He will reveal to them the truth of what they hear.

Quichua, Chimborazo Highland Across Countries (ROP3 - 102119) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Chimborazo Highland QuichuaPG017464Chimborazo Highland QuichuaEcuador1,010,000No Longer UnreachedChimborazo Highland QuichuaEthnoreligion

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