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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Calderon Highland Quichua of Ecuador

The Calderon Highland Quichua of Ecuador, numbering approximately 52,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Indigenous Kichwa-speaking people of the northern Ecuadorian highlands whose identity emerged from the blending of pre-Columbian Andean populations under the spread of Highland Quichua language and culture in the Sierra region. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Calderón Highland Quichua is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Ecuador
People Cluster: Quechua
Primary Language(s): Calderón Highland Quichua (qud)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 52,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017460
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Calderón Highland Quichua
Language Family: Quechuan

75%
%
Quichua, Calderón Highland Speakers

Media Resources in Calderón Highland Quichua:

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Bible Resources in Calderón Highland Quichua:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Calderon 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 Calderon 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 Calderon Highland Quichua of Ecuador

"For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" But he said "What is impossible with man is possible with God."
readLuke 18:25-27

Pray that the lost who think they have everything they need will recognize their spiritual poverty apart from Jesus and turn to Him in faith.

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
read2 Timothy 4:3-4

Pray that the lost will be open to the truth of the gospel and turn from false teachings and myths to the sound doctrine of Christ in faith.

Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered.
readPsalm 105:5

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will rejoice as they remember His wonders, miracles, and perfect judgements.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
readEphesians 6:12

Ask God to give those He sends to cross cultures the discernment they need to recognize the spiritual battle they are fighting. Pray God will protect their faith as they abide in Him.

Quichua, Calderon Highland Across Countries (ROP3 - 101854) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Calderon Highland QuichuaPG017460Calderon Highland QuichuaEcuador52,500No Longer UnreachedCalderón Highland QuichuaEthnoreligion

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